"Lynch Law in America"
Journal article
By: Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Date: January 1900
Source: Wells-Barnett, Ida B. "Lynch Law in America." The Arena 23, no. 1, January 1900, 15–24. Available online at http://courses.washington.edu/spcmu/speeches/idabwells.htm (accessed May 23, 2003).
About the Author: Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862–1931) was born to slave parents in Holly Springs, Mississippi, just six months before the Emancipation Proclamation took effect. As editor of the Memphis Free Speech and Headlight after 1889, she became the most influential black female activist in the country and perhaps the world. Her antilynching writings included "Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases" (1892). Wells-Barnett helped found the NAACP in 1909 and criticized racial accommodationists such as Booker T. Washington.
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