The epidemic of lynching that gripped the American South in the decades after the Civil War and the end of slavery has been glossed over and understated in many
Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases is an essay by Ida B. Wells-Barnett. It presented the horrors of lynching and advocated ending the practice entire
Gain insight into the life of Ida B. Wells as Southern Horrors and Other Writings illustrates how events like yellow fever epidemic transformed her into a inter
In the post-civil war American south, the despicable act of lynching was commonplace and considered to be a form of vigilantism that was used to murder African