Author : Ida B. Wells-Barnett
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (792 download)
Book Synopsis Southern Horrors (Annotated) by : Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Download or read book Southern Horrors (Annotated) written by Ida B. Wells-Barnett and published by . This book was released on 2021-12-05 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Southern Horrors is a pamphlet published in 1892 Journalist and speaker Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931) is best known for leading the fight against the lynching of African Americans in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Already established as a respected voice within the African American community in Memphis, Wells published Southern Horrors in 1892 after a close friend died along with two other black men at the hands of a lynch mob. The book's title mocked Southern honor as the commonly cited justification for lynching. Forced out of the South because of her activism, Wells moved to Chicago. She spent the remainder of her life speaking and writing on behalf of African Americans.