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Southern Horrors

Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Book Overview: 

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.

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. . .itorial in question was prompted by the many inhuman and fiendish lynchings of Afro-Americans which have recently taken place and was meant as a warning. Eight lynched in one week and five of them charged with rape! The thinking public will not easily believe freedom and education more brutalizing than slavery, and the world knows that the crime of rape was unknown during four years of civil war, when the white women of the South were at the mercy of the race which is all at once charged with being a bestial one.

Since my business has been destroyed and I am an exile from home because of that editorial, the issue has been forced, and as the writer of it I feel that the race and the public generally should have a statement of the facts as they exist. They will serve at the same time as a defense for the Afro-Americans Sampsons who suffer themselves to be betrayed by white Delilahs.

The whites of Montgomery, Ala., knew J.C. Duke sounded the keynote of the . . . Read More

Community Reviews

This book was more of a pamphlet in size but it contains the words of a woman who I was sadly unfamiliar with until a week or so ago. She's so incredible. She is so unrelenting. I don't know how she woke up every morning with a "what next" attitude. She fought and spoke for causes that gave her litt

A powerful and well researched indictment on the reasons why Black men were lynched in the 1800s in America. It was not because Black men were raping white women but because Black people were trying to get ahead economically/socially in their lives. Good use of excerpts of newspapers. It was hard to

To read a litany of several lynching circumstances in the late 19th century is to be horrified and mortified that an anti-lynching law wasn’t enacted by the United States until 2020. Shameful and inexcusable, it can only be explained with ugly terms such as racism, terrorism, hypocrisy, hatred, sadi

Cw: overt violent racism, antiBlack violence (mentions)
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This pamphlet is a must read for my fellow white people. It details the horrors of the South’s Lynch mobs and their brutality against the regions Black inhabitants in the form of case studies and examinations of motives for these heino

The excerpts from the white-owned newspapers really creeped me out, because of how similar they sound to the modern alt-right and other grievance-culture internet racists.

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(view spoiler)[Wednesday evening May 24, 1892, the city of Memphis was filled with excitement. Editorials in the daily pape (hide spoiler)]

This makes for a fascinating read. If you can't stomach occasionally graphic descriptions of violent crimes, maybe don't read this. Its a short 50ish page pamphlet printed originally in 1892. Its a discussion of lynchings and what contributed to them towards the end of the 19th century. It lays bare

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