أهوال الجنوب: قانون اللينش في كل أطواره (Southern Horrors)

مقدمة

Ida B. Wells, co-owner of the Memphis newspaper Free Speech and Headlight, began investigating lynching after three Black grocers were lynched in March 1892. When she suggested in print that relationships between white women and Black men were often consensual, a mob destroyed the paper’s office while she was in the North, and she was warned not to return. Southern Horrors, published in New York in October 1892 with funds raised by Black women’s clubs, sets out her findings: the charge of rape was a pretext, and lynching served to keep Black citizens from economic and political advance. Wells called for boycotts, migration and self-defence, writing that a Winchester rifle should have a place of honour in every Black home.

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• سجل أحمر (A Red Record)1895 · إيدا ويلز

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• 1895سجل أحمر (A Red Record)