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Ida B. Wells-Barnett's powerful anti-lynching treatise which details the gruesome and appalling racist violence in the Southern United States in the 1890s, as well as mounting a strong and closely argued denunciation of lynching, as well as revealing the complicity of the press in these terrible crimes against humanity. Essential reading for anyone interested in the social history of the USA and the experiences of African Americans.

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Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States. Ida B. Wells-Barnett was an early figure in the civil rights movement. She was born into slavery, and gained her freedom when the Emancipation Proclamation was declared. She suffered through various hardships, and became a journalist investigating the horrors of lynching, proving that it wasn't a tool of justice, but a tool of terror and oppression.

“The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.”In the book The Red Record, Ida documents the alarmingly high rates of lynching in the United States (which was at a peak from 1880 to 1930). She argued that during Reconstruction, most Americans outside the South did not realize the growing rate of violence against black people in the South. Ida B. Wells (1862-1931) was a prominent American educator, journalist and an early leader in the civil rights movement. She was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and dedicated most of her life to combating violence and prejudice.