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Southern Horrors Lynch Law in All Its Phases [Original Edition] Ida B WellsBarnett 9781544787244 Books

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Born to enslaved parents in Civil War ravaged Mississippi, Ida B. Wells (1862-1931) enjoyed a long, distinguished career as a prominent -- and often controversial -- civil rights and women’s rights activist. She first became a public figure at the age of twenty-two, when she lead a protest against the segregated railroad system in Memphis, Tennessee. When ordered to go and sit in the train’s designated “Jim Crow” car by a white conductor, Wells refused, resulting in her violent ejection from the train. (But not, Wells would later write proudly, before she had thoroughly, and she hoped painfully, bitten the offending conductor’s hand.) Although the lawsuit which Wells brought against the railroad ended in failure, the incident nonetheless served as the beginning of her career as a powerful advocate for racial and gender equality in the United States. Over the course of her long life, Wells served as a co-founder of the NAACP, an impassioned suffragist, and a much-acclaimed journalist and author. Among her many writings is her autobiography, Crusade for Justice The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells (Chicago University of Chicago Press, 1972). The most recent of the many excellent biographical studies of Wells’s life and work is Paula Giddings’ Ida A Sword Among Lions Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching (New York Amistad, 2008). In “Lynch Law In All Its Phases,” Wells also drew upon rhetoric and arguments similar to those used by abolitionists such as Douglass and Garrison in their writings and oratory during the antebellum era. Much like antebellum abolitionists, Wells provided her audience with extensive and carefully-documented facts, reciting damning statistics about the utter lack of any evidence that lynched men and women had committed, or even been accused of, any crime prior to their murders. Like abolitionists, Wells described the full horror of the violence perpetrated against African-Americans within American society in excruciating detail, refusing to spare her audience the “horrible details” (342). And, like antislavery activists throughout the antebellum era, Wells deliberately linked the cause of racial justice with the right to free speech, invoking the abolitionist martyr Elijah P. Lovejoy, who had been murdered in 1837 for his refusal to cease publishing his antislavery newspaper, and emphasizing the fact that her own life was currently in danger, simply because she had dared to publish the truth about lynching. For invoking her right to free speech, Wells told her audience, “I was to be dumped into the river and beaten, if not killed… I was to be hanged in front of the court house and my face bled” (340). And, perhaps most powerfully, Wells, like the generations of abolitionists who had come before her, insisted to her audience that America’s brutal and unjust treatment of African-Americans made a mockery of its claim to be a “Christian nation, the flower of nineteenth-century civilization” (344). Throughout “Lynch Law In All Its Phases,” Wells linked the antilynching fight to the antebellum struggle for abolition, and insisted that if the fair and equal world of which abolitionists had dreamed was ever to be a reality, the terrible crime of lynching needed to be brought to an absolute and permanent end.

Southern Horrors Lynch Law in All Its Phases [Original Edition] Ida B WellsBarnett 9781544787244 Books

I purchased this book thinking that it would be a short essay on the lynching records that Ida B. Wells is so historically famous for publishing. This book contained three of her publications including her correspondence with the Christian Womens Temperance association which I found to be very informative. She eloquently expresses her frustration with the president of the association for misrepresenting her position on the involvement of white women and the lynch law. Mrs. Wells argues her position very clear, making it known of her disappointment in a Christian association that does not support anti-lynching laws. The book can be difficult to read due to the graphic nature of historical accounts, but yet a must read for anyone that wants to know the true history of this country.

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Southern Horrors Lynch Law in All Its Phases [Original Edition] Ida B WellsBarnett 9781544787244 Books Reviews

It was everything I expected.
Short but very good.
Ida B Wells was very courageous for writing this during the time lynchings were happening all over the country. Very informative perspective; it helps me get a better understanding on the whys and hows on lynching.
African American History..subject matter is hard and sad to read. The wording is a easy read. If you are able to cope with the subject you can finish this book in a couple of hours.
History comes alive with the haunting stories of real injustices as recorded by the brave Ida B. Wells. A must for Civil Rights historians. Lest we forget!
Southern Horrors sheds light on the heinous acts of lynching Black and Brown bodies for no more reasons than being a person of color! The American history of torture and terror committed against Black and Brown bodies is put to the light in Southern Horrors!
This is a powerful book written by a powerful woman. She witnessed genocide and had the courage and the determination to tell the world about it. She told the truth. If this book doesn't move you, nothing will.
I purchased this book thinking that it would be a short essay on the lynching records that Ida B. Wells is so historically famous for publishing. This book contained three of her publications including her correspondence with the Christian Womens Temperance association which I found to be very informative. She eloquently expresses her frustration with the president of the association for misrepresenting her position on the involvement of white women and the lynch law. Mrs. Wells argues her position very clear, making it known of her disappointment in a Christian association that does not support anti-lynching laws. The book can be difficult to read due to the graphic nature of historical accounts, but yet a must read for anyone that wants to know the true history of this country.