Written by Ida B. Wells Barnett

Southern Horrors - Lynch Law in All Its Phases

Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases, and A Red Record is a pamphlet written by Ida Bell Wells-Barnett, an African-American socialist who documented lynching in the United States. Before reading this book readers should know about lynching, which is the practice of killing people by extrajudicial mob action. This pamphlet is a res..

The Red Record

by Ida B. Wells Barnett

The Red Record is a study of causes of lynching in United States written by African-American sociologist Ida Bell Wells-Barnett, who documented lynching in the United States. She has exposed how lynching was used as a way to punish and control blacks in United states by the whites who used lynching as a silent weapon to pull down the blacks w..