On Lynchings by Ida B. Wells-Barnett

On Lynchings

Ida B. Wells-Barnett

163 pages first pub 1969 (editions)

nonfiction history race challenging informative slow-paced
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The bleak years after the Civil War brought continuing oppression to African Americans. During the 1880s and 1890s, more than 100 black citizens were lynched each year. In 1892, Memphis newspaper editor Ida B. Wells-Barnett raised a lone voice of ...

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