Ida B. Wells and her Campaign Against Lynching

Ida B. Wells and her Campaign Against Lynching

The investigative journalist and activist Ida B. Wells spearheaded the anti-lynching movement in the United States. Ida wrote A Red Record (1892), using mainstream white newspapers to document a resurgence of white mob violence, and 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, [New York Public Library].

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