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    Southern Horrors
    Southern Horrors
    Southern Horrors
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    Southern Horrors

    Written by Ida B. Wells-Barnett

    Narrated by Janina Edwards and Royal Jaye

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    “If American conscience were only half alive, if the American church and clergy were only half christianized, if American moral sensibility were not hardened by a persistent infliction of outrage and crime against colored people, a scream of horror, shame and indignation would rise to Heaven wherever your pamphlet shall be read.” —Frederick Douglass, to Ida B. Wells-Barnett


    In 1892, investigative journalist Ida B. Wells-Barnett published a pamphlet with unflinching and honest descriptions of the cruelties being enacted against Black Americans in the South by their white neighbors. Wells’s poignant and raw reporting of the horrors of lynching scandalized many of her readers outside the South, yet the practice continued unimpeded for more than half a century after. Today, Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases is a sobering reminder that American racism and inequality did not simply end with emancipation—and that state-sanctioned oppression and violence can take different forms in different eras.


    Ida B. Wells-Barnett was born into slavery in Mississippi in 1862, and was freed at the end of the American Civil War in 1865. Orphaned at the age of 16, she moved to Tennessee to become a schoolteacher and provide for her remaining family. She later became the co-owner of and reporter for the Memphis Free Speech and Headlight, a newspaper published on the grounds of a Baptist church and dedicated to social justice. Despite her life being threatened, her office being destroyed by a mob, and her family facing daily harassment, Wells remained an activist for civil and women’s rights for her entire life. She was one of the founders of the NAACP, and was posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her reporting on the violence against African Americans. She died in Chicago in 1931.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSpotify Audiobooks
    Release dateOct 27, 2020
    ISBN9781094254531
    Southern Horrors
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    Ida B. Wells-Barnett

    Born a slave, Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862–1931) became one of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries' most powerful voices for justice and against the brutality of lynching. Her unflinching journalistic accounts shed light on the evils and persistence of racism in the United States. Wells-Barnett was one of the original founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Her groundbreaking activism laid the foundation for the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. In 2020, she was posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her “outstanding and courageous reporting on the horrific and vicious violence against African Americans during the era of lynching.”

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    • 5/5
      It is books like this that make me wish I had a sniper gun and a Time Machine. This is an honest telling of the many injustices that Black people face after they got their “freedom“, I can’t believe a rather sadly I can let someone would be murdered for something as a being sassy to a white man. How dare the young boy think he can talk to a white man with disrespect… Well no worries they hung him! It’s stories like this that make me sick in the same jail set a black man who “right“ a white woman and a white man who raped an eight-year-old little girl and was caught in the act doing it. Needless to say they lynched the black man and the white man not only was acquitted, but live to rape another day. I could only take this book and portions as listening to the whole thing would’ve just made me more depressed than it already did. Although a great book and one that should be read by all it’s still a lot and can get overwhelming at least the sadness can. I highly recommend it though.

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