Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases

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Ida Bell Wells, later Wells-Barnett (1862-1931), was an African American civil rights advocate and an early womens rights advocate active in the Woman Suffrage Movement. Fearless in her opposition to lynchings, Wells documented hundreds of these atrocities. Wells became a public figure in Memphis when, in 1884, she led a campaign against racial segregation on the local railway. In 1889, she became co-owner and editor of Free Speech, an anti-segregationist newspaper based in Memphis on Beale Street. She also published in 1892 her famous pamphlet Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All its Phases. This pamphlet, along with her 1895 The Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States, documented her research on and campaign against lynching. In 1892, Wells went to Great Britain at the behest of British Quaker Catherine Impey. An opponent of imperialism and proponent of racial equality, Impey wanted to be sure that the British public was informed about the problem of lynching. After her retirement, Wells wrote her autobiography, Crusade for Justice (1928). Her other works include Mob Rule in New Orleans (1900)

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An investigative journalist, Ida B. Wells published this book as a pamphlet in 1892. Its raw and
graphic depiction of the cruelty perpetrated by White people on their African American
neighbors laid bare the horrors of the crime of lynching. Through her writing, readers in the
North could understand the violence of racism and inequity that continued in the South despite
emancipation, violence that was state-sanctioned and continued without punishment well into the
next century.
Wells was born into slavery, emancipated after the Civil War, and became an orphan at 16 years
old. She became a school teacher before becoming a reporter and eventual owner of the
Memphis Free Speech and Headlight Newspaper. Wells was one of the original founders of the
NAACP and continued in her civil rights activism all her life, despite years of threats, mob
violence, and harassment at her home and work.  Wells died in 1931 and was posthumously
awarded a Pulitzer Prize for reporting that exposed the violence against African Americans
Fredrick Douglas wrote to Ida B. Wells after reading her reporting on lynching and said,  If
American conscience were only half alive, if the American church and clergy were only half
Christianized; if American moral sensibility were not hardened by a persistent infliction of
outrage and crime against colored people, a scream of horror, shame and indignation would rise
to Heaven wherever your pamphlet shall be read.

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