The Red Record - Ida B. Wells

The Red Record

By Ida B. Wells

  • Release Date: 2020-04-06
  • Genre: Social Science

Description

Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States. 

Ida B. Wells-Barnett was an early figure in the civil rights movement. She was born into slavery, and gained her freedom when the Emancipation Proclamation was declared. She suffered through various hardships, and became a journalist investigating the horrors of lynching, proving that it wasn't a tool of justice, but a tool of terror and oppression.

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