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Ida B. Wells — Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases

1892 · Book · Public Domain

Ida B. Wells's "Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases" is an investigative pamphlet detailing the realities of lynching in the American South. This seminal work exposed the false pretenses used to justify lynching and galvanized the anti-lynching movement.

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