Ida B. Wells-Barnett fue una periodista y activista afroamericana que se dedicó a documentar el linchamiento en los Estados Unidos. A través de sus escritos, expuso cómo el linchamiento se utilizaba a menudo para controlar y castigar a personas negras, frecuentemente bajo el pretexto de acusaciones de violación. También fue una ferviente defensora de los derechos de las mujeres y del sufragio femenino, estableciendo varias organizaciones notables de mujeres. Wells fue reconocida como una retórica hábil y persuasiva, que emprendió giras de conferencias internacionales para difundir su mensaje.
This volume contains a moving and disturbing account of the racial violence and lynchings that occurred in New Orleans around the 1890s, with a particular focus on the famous case of Robert Charles. Highlighting police brutality towards the minorities of New Orleans, this book can be related to the racial violence many people still encounter tod...
Thoroughly appalled and sickened by the rising numbers of white-on-black murders in the South since the beginning of Reconstruction, and by the unwillingness of local, state and federal governments to prosecute those who were responsible, Ida Bell Wells-Barnett wrote Southern Horrors, a pamphlet in which she exposed the horrible reality of lynchings to the rest of the nation and to the world. Wells explained, through case study, how the federal government's failure to intervene allowed Southern states the latitude to slowly but effectively disenfranchise blacks from participating as free men and women in a post-Civil War America with the rights and opportunities guaranteed to all Americans by the Constitution. (Summary by James K. White )
Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States
Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States
Robert Charles and His Fight to Death, the Story of His Life, Burning Human Beings Alive, Other Lynching Statistics