Name: The Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States, Paperback/Ida B. Wells-Barnett
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The investigative journalist and activist Ida B. Wells, later Wells-Barnett, spearheaded the anti-lynching movement in the United States. Expanding on her groundbreaking exposé Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases (1892), A Red Record used mainstream white newspapers to document a resurgence of white mob violence, finding that -more than 10,000 African Americans had been killed by lynching in the South between 1864 and 1894. Wells compiled statistics on alleged offenses and the geographic distribution and extent of lynching, and tied whites' increased brutality and violence to their fear of African Americans' increased political power. Her conclusion exhorts anti-lynching advocates to "tell the world the facts," for "When the Christian world knows the alarming growth and extent of outlawry in our land, some means will be found to stop it." (nypl.org) About the author Ida B. Wells (full name: Ida Bell Wells-Barnett) (July 16, 1862 - March 25, 1931) was an American investigative journalist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement. She was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Wells dedicated her lifetime to combating prejudice and violence, the fight for African-American equality, especially that of women, and became arguably the most famous Black woman in the United States of her time. Born into slavery in Holly Springs, Mississippi, Wells was freed by the Emancipation Proclamation during the Ame