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Southern Horrors - (Black Narratives) by Ida B Wells (Paperback)

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  • Southern Horrors (1892) is a pamphlet by Ida B. Wells.
  • Author(s): Ida B Wells
  • 36 Pages
  • Social Science,
  • Series Name: Black Narratives

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Southern Horrors (1892) is a pamphlet by Ida B. Wells. Published several months after a white mob destroyed the office of her prominent Memphis newspaper, the Free Speech, Southern Horrors is an impassioned work of investigative journalism and political criticism from a leading activist of the nineteenth century. "Nobody in this section of the country believes the old thread-bare lie that Negro men rape white women. If Southern white men are not careful, they will overreach themselves and public sentiment will have a reaction; a conclusion will then be reached which will be very damaging to the moral reputation of their women." After publishing these words in a May 1892 edition of the Memphis Free Speech, Ida B. Wells left for a brief vacation in New York-no doubt inspired by the numerous threats made against her life at the time. In her absence, a mob of white men destroyed the newspaper's office, leaving no trace of her extensive research on the last half century of violence perpetrated against African Americans in the name of white supremacy. Undeterred, Wells published Southern Horrors just months later, combining personal reflections on the incident with daring investigative reporting on the widespread practice of lynching in the American South.

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In May 1892, Ida B. Wells published an editorial in the Memphis Free Speech and Headlight reporting on the recent lynching of eight Black men across the American South. Angered by her criticism of the common "alarm about raping white women," a group of white men destroyed the newspaper's office. Southern Horrors is a pamphlet by Ida B. Wells.

Dimensions (Overall): 8.0 Inches (H) x 5.0 Inches (W) x .09 Inches (D)
Weight: .11 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 36
Series Title: Black Narratives
Genre: Social Science
Publisher: Mint Editions
Format: Paperback
Author: Ida B Wells
Language: English
Street Date: September 28, 2021
TCIN: 86286863
UPC: 9781513290652
Item Number (DPCI): 247-00-6137
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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