Authors: Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Ida B. Wells-Barnette began the fight for a federal anti-lynching law.
1877–1917

Self-Help

Source: Ida B. Wells, Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases (New York, 1892); available at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14975. In the creation of this healthier public sentiment, the Afro-American can do

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1917–1929

Lynch Law in America

Source: The Arena 23 (January 1900), 15-24. OUR country’s national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable

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1917–1929

Lynch Law in America

Source: The Arena 23 (January 1900): 15–24. Our country’s national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable

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