Southern Horrors is a pamphlet of essays by Ida B. Wells-Barnett, first published in 1892. It examines lynching in the American South and challenges the false justifications often given for racial violence. It remains a significant historical account of early civil-rights journalism and a call for truth and self-help.
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Cover of the original edition (Project Gutenberg, public domain).
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Opening of the book
Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases By Ida B. Wells-Barnett 1892, 1893, 1894 [Transcriber's Note: This pamphlet was first published in 1892 but was subsequently reprinted. It's not apparent if the curiosities in spelling date back to the original or were introduced later; they have been retained as found, and the reader is left to decide. Please verify with another source before quoting this material.] PREFACE HON. FRED. DOUGLASS'S LETTER THE OFFENSE THE BLACK AND WHITE OF IT THE NEW CRY THE MALICIOUS AND UNTRUTHFUL WHITE PRESS THE SOUTH'S POSITION SELF-HELP PREFACE The greater part of what is contained in these pages was published in the New York Age June 25, 1892, in
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