Southern Horrors - Lynch Law in All Its Phases

Synopsis

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 research on lynching against the black people, by white race after Civil War period. The author protest three excuses of lynching with valid reasons; Black race planned many riots and whites resisted it; Negros alleged domination over whites in government power; Any relationship between a white woman and a negro man was considered as rape. She also explained the insecurities and greed of whites against Negros commercial establishments resulted in lynching.

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