Project Gutenberg 2005-02-08 Public domain in the USA. 4842 Wells-Barnett, Ida B. 1862 1931 Wells, Ida B. Iola The Red Record Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States Reading ease score: 66.7 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. Produced by Suzanne Shell, Melissa Er-Raqabi and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net “The Red Record” by Ida B. Wells-Barnett is a historical account written in the late 19th century. This work serves as a powerful and harrowing examination of lynching in the United States, particularly focusing on its impact on African Americans in the South. The text collects and analyzes statistics regarding lynching incidents, scrutinizing the justification of such acts and providing commentary on the societal implications and underlying racial biases of that era. The opening of the pamphlet establishes the context for Wells-Barnett's investigation, addressing the severe moral indifference of American society towards lynchings that had become alarmingly commonplace by 1894. In her preface, letters from notable figures, such as Frederick Douglass, emphasize the need for her work to expose the grave injustices faced by Black individuals, given the overwhelming statistics of murders without judicial process. The beginning chapters outline various excuses historically employed by white southerners to justify such brutal acts, probing into the concepts of racial violence, societal complicity, and the deeply entrenched systems of oppression that not only allowed for but effectively encouraged such lawlessness. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en African Americans -- History -- 1877-1964 Lynching -- United States Lynching -- United States -- Statistics HV Text African American Writers Crime Nonfiction Browsing: Crime/Mystery Browsing: History - American Browsing: Sociology 234792 234793 2024-10-06T15:29:44.757263 2023-09-07T05:34:22.319276 text/html text/html 232889 2020-12-19T10:44:04 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 482749 2020-12-19T10:44:04 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 605875 2024-10-06T15:29:51.156230 application/epub+zip 608069 2024-10-06T15:29:47.047254 application/epub+zip 150591 2024-10-06T15:29:45.482385 application/epub+zip 415233 2024-10-06T15:29:54.163192 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 397916 2024-10-06T15:29:50.067251 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 232281 2022-09-07T19:17:30.642597 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 221045 220940 2024-10-06T15:29:44.254260 2023-09-07T05:34:21.794276 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 221017 2020-12-19T10:44:04 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 84830 2020-12-19T10:44:04 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 221008 2020-12-19T10:44:03 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 84815 2020-12-19T10:44:04 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 22671 2024-10-06T15:29:54.298192 application/rdf+xml 9250 2024-10-06T15:29:46.026244 image/jpeg 2654 2024-10-06T15:29:45.753385 image/jpeg 539045 2024-10-06T15:29:44.788255 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia