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Southern Horrors and Other Writings: The Anti-Lynching Campaign of Ida B. Wells, 1892-1900
Ida B. Wells was an African-American woman who achieved national and international fame as a journalist, public speaker, and community activist. This volume collects three pamphlets that constitute her major works during the anti-lynching movement: Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases, A Red Record, and Mob Rule in New Orleans.
Paperback, 228 pages
Published
August 15th 1996
by Bedford/St. Martin's
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Assigned this for an African American history class; the first time I have done so. I assigned the introduction and "A Red Record." Many students in this class are not especially motivated to do the readings so I was not expecting a great discussion but I was happily surprised. Students talked about Wells' use of statistics and case studies as well as why she chose to provide difficult and often gruesome details. On their own, students also considered the broader context of turn of the...more
Many people don't know about the dynamism of Ida B. Wells who fought tirelessly to ensure that anti-lynching laws were passed. And Ida was not afraid to get a little gangsta if she needed to. When historians speak of the modern Civil Rights era in the U.S. they primarily speak of the late '50s and '60s; Ida B. Wells walks in the tradition of early crusaders for equal rights, establishing many of the techniques that were used in the modern Civil Rights Movement, with even (if you can imagine) les...more
Saint Augustine wrote: “Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are anger and courage: anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain the way they are.” Ida B. Wells is a American incarnation of hope, because she was indignant that Americans could preach one thing and do the exact opposite, namely, pride itself on being “the land of the free and home of the brave” while lynching thousands of its own citizens, overwhelmingly, blacks in the South. But she also ha...more
I only got to read snippets of the books, skimming through for a class. I intend to read through it in greater detail once I have the time.
Every highschool student should be required to read this book as a part of their history class.
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