Selected Works of Ida B. Wells-BarnettFour of Ida B. Wells-Barnett's moving anti-lynching essays are presented in this volume. Written during the height of the lynching craze at the turn of the century, they elegantly speak to the pain and loss caused by racist thought and action. |
Contents
Lynch Law in All Its Phases 1892 | 14 |
The Reason Why the Colored American Is Not in the Worlds | 46 |
Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynch | 138 |
Robert Charles and His Fight | 253 |
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