Southern Horrors (eBook, ePUB) - B. Wells-Barnett, Ida
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Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases by Ida B. Wells-Barnett is an exemplary work of investigative reporting and cultural analysis that offers a detailed exploration of the ways in which the unjust and oppressive practices of lynching functioned to maintain the subordination of African Americans throughout the South.

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Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases by Ida B. Wells-Barnett is an exemplary work of investigative reporting and cultural analysis that offers a detailed exploration of the ways in which the unjust and oppressive practices of lynching functioned to maintain the subordination of African Americans throughout the South.
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Ida Bell Wells-Barnett (1862 -1931) was an American investigative journalist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement. She was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Over the course of a lifetime dedicated to combating prejudice and violence, and the fight for African-American equality, especially that of women, Wells arguably became the most famous Black woman in America. Born into slavery in Holly Springs, Mississippi, Wells was freed by the Emancipation Proclamation during the American Civil War. At the age of 16, she lost both her parents and her infant brother in the 1878 yellow fever epidemic. She went to work and kept the rest of the family together with the help of her grandmother. Later, moving with some of her siblings to Memphis, Tennessee, she found better pay as a teacher. Soon, Wells co-owned and wrote for the Memphis Free Speech and Headlight newspaper. Her reporting covered incidents of racial segregation and inequality.