Southern Horrors
The Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
Pamphlet
By: Ida B. Wells
Date: 1892
Source: Southern Horrors is a pamphlet published in 1892 by Ida B. Wells.
About the Author: Journalist and speaker Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862–1931) is best known for leading the fight against the lynching of African Americans in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Already established as a respected voice within the African American community in Memphis, Wells published Southern Horrors in 1892 after a close friend died along with two other black men at the hands of a lynch mob. The book's title mocked Southern honor as the commonly cited justification for lynching. Forced out of the South because of her activism, Wells moved to Chicago. She spent the...
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