Ida B Wells-Barnett
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Following the Civil War, African Americans were still subjected to tyranny. Each year between 1880 and 1890, more than 100 black people were lynched.
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Ida B. Wells-Barnett, the editor of a Memphis newspaper, was forced to flee for her life in 1892 after raising a lone voice of dissent. So the fight against lynching by the civil rights pioneer got started. This collection includes Wells's first essay on lynching, Southern Horrors, as well as its sequels, A Red Record and Mob Rule in New Orleans. These books, which are supported by her thorough research and evidence, are still vital to historians today just as they were to the author's initial audience.
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