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On Lynchings (Paperback)
Ida B.Wells- Barnett; Introduction by Patricia Hill Collins
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R750
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Though the end of the Civil War brought legal emancipation to
African-American people, it is a fact of history that their social
oppression continued long after. The most virulent form of this
ongoing persecution was the practice of lynching carried out by mob
rule, often as local law enforcement officials looked the other
way. During the 1880s and 1890s, more than 100 African Americans
per year were lynched, and in 1892 alone the toll of murdered men
and women reached a peak of 161. In that awful year, the
twenty-three-year-old Ida B. Wells, the editor of a small newspaper
for blacks in Memphis, Tennessee, raised one lone voice of protest.
In her paper she charged that white businessmen had instigated
three local lynchings against their black competitors. In
retaliation for her outspoken courage a goon-squad of angry whites
destroyed her editorial office and print shop, and she was forced
to flee the South and move to New York City. So began a crusade
against lynching which became the focus of her long, active, and
very courageous life. In New York she began lecturing against the
abhorrent vigilante practice and published her first pamphlet on
the subject called "Southern Horrors". After moving to Chicago and
marrying lawyer Ferdinand Barnett, she continued her campaign,
publishing A Red Record in 1895 and Mob Rule in New Orleans, about
the race riots in that city, in 1900. All three of these documents
are here collected in this work, a shocking testament to cruelty
and the dark American legacy of racial prejudice. Anticipating
possible accusations of distortion, Wells-Barnett was careful to
present factually accurate evidence and she deliberately relied on
southern white sources as well as statistics gathered by the
Chicago Tribune. Using the words of white journalists, she created
a damning indictment of unpunished crimes that was difficult to
dispute since southern white men who had witnessed the appalling
incidents had written the descriptions. Along with her husband she
played an active role in the founding of the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Due to her efforts,
the NAACP launched an intensive campaign against lynching after
World War I. Her work remains important to this day not only as a
cry of protest against injustice but also as valuable historical
documentation of terrible crimes that must never be forgotten. This
edition is enhanced by an introduction by Patricia Hill Collins is
an American academic specialising in race, class and gender. She is
a Distinguished University Professor of Sociology at the University
of Maryland, College Park. She is also the former head of the
Department of African-American Studies at the University of
Cincinnati, and a past President of the American Sociological
Association.
Ida B. Wells exposes a series of racially-motivated acts that
disproportionately affect African Americans and is overwhelmingly
ignored by a majority white criminal justice system. It's crucial
documentation of a brutal practice that tormented a community. In
the late nineteenth century, Ida B. Wells was a thriving journalist
and civil rights activist. She used her writing and skills as an
investigative reporter to reveal the horrifying reality that many
African Americans experienced. The Red Record: Tabulated Statistics
and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States, is an
explosive report on how mob violence and white supremacy had become
the de facto law of the land. It created a culture of cruelty and
anti-blackness that promoted public attacks, including lynchings.
Ida B. Wells' work helped to initiate conversations about racism,
policy and policing. Shortly after the release of The Red Record:
Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United
States, the first anti-lynching bill was introduced into Congress.
Wells' efforts were critical for African Americans seeking justice
in a historically racist system. With an eye-catching new cover,
and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of The Red
Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the
United States is both modern and readable.
Southern Horrors (1892) is a pamphlet by Ida B. Wells. Published
several months after a white mob destroyed the office of her
prominent Memphis newspaper, the Free Speech, Southern Horrors is
an impassioned work of investigative journalism and political
criticism from a leading activist of the nineteenth century.
"Nobody in this section of the country believes the old thread-bare
lie that Negro men rape white women. If Southern white men are not
careful, they will overreach themselves and public sentiment will
have a reaction; a conclusion will then be reached which will be
very damaging to the moral reputation of their women." After
publishing these words in a May 1892 edition of the Memphis Free
Speech, Ida B. Wells left for a brief vacation in New York-no doubt
inspired by the numerous threats made against her life at the time.
In her absence, a mob of white men destroyed the newspaper's
office, leaving no trace of her extensive research on the last half
century of violence perpetrated against African Americans in the
name of white supremacy. Undeterred, Wells published Southern
Horrors just months later, combining personal reflections on the
incident with daring investigative reporting on the widespread
practice of lynching in the American South. With a beautifully
designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition
of Ida B. Wells' Southern Horrors is a classic of African American
literature reimagined for modern readers.
"She fought a lonely and almost single-handed fight, with the
single-mindedness of a crusader, long before men or women of any
race entered the arena; and the measure of success she achieved
goes far beyond the credit she has been given in the history of the
country."--Alfreda M. Duster Ida B. Wells is an American icon of
truth telling. Born to slaves, she was a pioneer of investigative
journalism, a crusader against lynching, and a tireless advocate
for suffrage, both for women and for African Americans. She
co-founded the NAACP, started the Alpha Suffrage Club in Chicago,
and was a leader in the early civil rights movement, working
alongside W. E. B. Du Bois, Madam C. J. Walker, Mary Church
Terrell, Frederick Douglass, and Susan B. Anthony. This engaging
memoir, originally published 1970, relates Wells's private life as
a mother as well as her public activities as a teacher, lecturer,
and journalist in her fight for equality and justice. This updated
edition includes a new foreword by Eve L. Ewing, new images, and a
new afterword by Ida B. Wells's great-granddaughter, Michelle
Duster.
Four of Ida B. Wells-Barnett's moving anti-lynching essays are presented in this volume. Written during the height of the lynching craze at the turn of the century, they elegantly speak to the pain and loss caused by racist thought and action.
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The Red Record (Hardcover)
Ida B.Wells- Barnett; Contributions by Irvine Garland Penn, T. Thomas Fortune
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Ida B.Wells- Barnett
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