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captaincocanutty's review against another edition
5.0
What do you give Ida B. Wells other than 5 stars? I read this around the same time as The Warmth of Other Suns, and that was a very insightful pair of books to read concurrently. The introduction and background information given by the professor were helpful and contributed to what I took away from this.
little_lettie's review against another edition
5.0
Should be mandatory reading in every high school across the U.S. Ida B. Wells is truly an inspiration.
raulbime's review against another edition
5.0
After reading these accounts from late 19th and early 20th century U.S.A. of lynching by mostly white men with complicity and at times instigation and encouragement from white women, against black men, women and children, I am disgusted and discouraged with humanity. Although I had heard the song Strange Fruit and even read the poem and was somewhat aware of this history, nothing prepared me for the gruesomeness and inhumanity I read in these pages.
Ida B. Wells was an incredible activist and journalist and what a debt we owe her for recording with fact and reason these bloody and horrid accounts. Any gaslighting, needless arguments about the past being the past will result with an immediate block.
Ida B. Wells was an incredible activist and journalist and what a debt we owe her for recording with fact and reason these bloody and horrid accounts. Any gaslighting, needless arguments about the past being the past will result with an immediate block.
andrewfontenelle's review against another edition
4.0
Immediately after the Reconstruction era in the United States, during a time when African Americans were expected to be subservient and accept their lot in society, Ida B. Wells led a campaign against the violence which was perpetrated against not just Black men but women and children as well.
This book contains three of her papers which were released as pamphlets and newspaper articles:
Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All its Phases
A Red Record
Mob Rule in New Orleans
The documents record detailed in some cases very explicit acts of barbarism carried out against Black people. They also show Wells to be an accomplished investigator gathering the relevant information to support her claims.
One can only be impressed with this woman and the campaign she led between 1892 and 1900 in not just highlighting the problem but proposing a solution. She was active in condemning Lynch Law and mob violence against Black people and showing it for what it was; part of the process of disfranchising African Americans. By raising awareness not just in the United States but internationally, and through concerted attempts to organise communities there were significant reductions in these atrocities for a period of time.
This book is worthwhile reading, highlighting an agitator and civil/human rights campaigner who was herself at times under the shadow of the very violence she spoke out against.
This book contains three of her papers which were released as pamphlets and newspaper articles:
Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All its Phases
A Red Record
Mob Rule in New Orleans
The documents record detailed in some cases very explicit acts of barbarism carried out against Black people. They also show Wells to be an accomplished investigator gathering the relevant information to support her claims.
One can only be impressed with this woman and the campaign she led between 1892 and 1900 in not just highlighting the problem but proposing a solution. She was active in condemning Lynch Law and mob violence against Black people and showing it for what it was; part of the process of disfranchising African Americans. By raising awareness not just in the United States but internationally, and through concerted attempts to organise communities there were significant reductions in these atrocities for a period of time.
This book is worthwhile reading, highlighting an agitator and civil/human rights campaigner who was herself at times under the shadow of the very violence she spoke out against.
whataudreads's review against another edition
4.0
Woweeee oh my goodness this was so heartbreaking and incredible. Ida B. Wells is an absolute queen and I can't believe that I haven't learned more about her until now. The name would've sounded familiar to me before I read this book, but I honestly couldn't tell you much about what she did. And she did so much! She absolutely changed the public perception of lynching through sass and, more importantly, FACTS. This was so hard to read but so important, and I wish that the brutal realities of lynching were more than a couple sentences in most history books.
The introduction by Jacqueline Jones Royster was also incredibly insightful and worth the read, although it drew so much from Wells' writing that at times later on the original texts felt repetitive. Either way, I think this little book is entirely worth thorough perusal. Ida B. Wells should be on every bill.
The introduction by Jacqueline Jones Royster was also incredibly insightful and worth the read, although it drew so much from Wells' writing that at times later on the original texts felt repetitive. Either way, I think this little book is entirely worth thorough perusal. Ida B. Wells should be on every bill.
klorenzo's review against another edition
5.0
This book is a heartbreaking account of the lies told to justify vigilanty lynchings.
loppear's review
4.0
Tough historical documents - the first from 1892 is narrowly focused on bringing to light the regularity of mob violent murders without justice for reasons far from the claimed "honor of our white women". The second from 1895 expands this to a national (southern-dominated, by fact) review of the varieties of brutality and range of justifications or circumventions of justice given for these terrorizing deaths. The third from 1900 resonates most today, as with the others mostly commentary on newspaper reports, of one mob riot against random black individuals in New Orleans following the injury (and subsequent deaths) of police. Wells lays the presumptions and contortions to arrive at who is good and evil in these reports very bare, while blacks are killed for no reason and with no concern in the headlines of the days.
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