On Lynchings

Name: On Lynchings
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ISBN: 9781591020080

ISBN-10: 1591020085

ISBN-13: 9781591020080

Edition: 2002

Authors: Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Patricia Hill Collins

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Though the end of the Civil War brought legal emancipation to blacks, it is a fact of history that their social oppression continued long after. The most virulent form of this ongoing persecution was the practice of lynching carried out by mob rule, often as local law enforcement officials looked the other way. During the 1880s and 1890s, more than 100 African Americans per year were lynched, and in 1892 alone the toll of murdered men and women reached a peak of 161. In that awful year, the twenty-three-year-old Ida B Wells, the editor of a small newspaper for blacks in Memphis, Tennessee, raised one lone voice of protest. In her paper she charged that white businessmen had instigated three…

Book details

List price: $23.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Globe Pequot Press, The
Publication date: 1/1/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 204
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English



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A Red Record



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