Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases

CTL-E-1617 · Work · book · 1890s

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1892 investigative pamphlet by Ida B. Wells documenting lynching in the American South.

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Also known as: Southern Horrors

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Wells authored Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases (1892).

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