Southern Horrors
Lynch Law in All Its Phases

Outraged by the execution of her friend Thomas Moss in the “Curve Riot” by a black-masked mob, Ida B. Wells, co-owner and editor of the Memphis negro newspaper The Free Speech and Headlight, began to research the facts that lay behind the lynching of black men in the South. Two and a half months lat......more

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......more

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......more

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......more