Title | : | The Red Record |
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Author | : | Ida B. Wells |
Release | : | 2020-08-02 |
Kind | : | ebook |
Genre | : | Classics, Books, Fiction & Literature |
Size | : | 718067 |
In the postbellum American South, lynching was a frightfully common occurrence, perpetrated so frequently that most Southern politicians and leaders turned a blind eye to the practice. This vicious form of vigilante “justice” was in truth a thinly veiled racist justification for murderous violence. In 1892 alone, more than two hundred African Americans were lynched, with alleged offenses ranging from “attempted stock poisoning” to “insulting whites.” |