Ida B. Wells-Barnett was een Afro-Amerikaanse journaliste en activiste die zich toelegde op het documenteren van lynchpartijen in de Verenigde Staten. Met haar geschriften onthulde ze hoe lynchpartijen vaak werden gebruikt om zwarte individuen te controleren en te straffen, vaak onder het mom van verkrachtingsbeschuldigingen. Ze was ook een vurig voorstander van vrouwenrechten en vrouwenkiesrecht, en richtte verschillende opmerkelijke vrouwenorganisaties op. Wells werd erkend als een bekwame en overtuigende retoricus, die internationale lezingen gaf om haar boodschap te verspreiden.
This volume contains a moving and disturbing account of the racial violence and lynchings that occurred in New Orleans around the 1890s, with a particular focus on the famous case of Robert Charles. Highlighting police brutality towards the minorities of New Orleans, this book can be related to the racial violence many people still encounter tod...
Thoroughly appalled and sickened by the rising numbers of white-on-black murders in the South since the beginning of Reconstruction, and by the unwillingness of local, state and federal governments to prosecute those who were responsible, Ida Bell Wells-Barnett wrote Southern Horrors, a pamphlet in which she exposed the horrible reality of lynchings to the rest of the nation and to the world. Wells explained, through case study, how the federal government's failure to intervene allowed Southern states the latitude to slowly but effectively disenfranchise blacks from participating as free men and women in a post-Civil War America with the rights and opportunities guaranteed to all Americans by the Constitution. (Summary by James K. White )
Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States
Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States
Robert Charles and His Fight to Death, the Story of His Life, Burning Human Beings Alive, Other Lynching Statistics