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Lynch Law in America

By Wells, Ida, B.

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Book Id: WPLBN0100002658
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File Size: 0.2 MB
Reproduction Date: 01/01/1900

Title: Lynch Law in America  
Author: Wells, Ida, B.
Volume:
Language: English
Subject: Non Fiction, Law, Lynching
Collections: Authors Community, Politics
Historic
Publication Date:
1900
Publisher: Arena Publishing Co.
Member Page: History Is A Weapon .org

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B. Well, B. I. (1900). Lynch Law in America. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.cc/


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Source: Ida B. Wells-Barnett, “Lynch Law in America,” The Arena 23 (January 1900), 15-24.

Summary
Beginning in 1892 with the destruction of her newspaper, the Memphis Free Speech, Ida B. Wells for the next forty years was the most prominent opponent of lynching in the United States. What follows is a speech she made to a Chicago audience on the subject in January 1900.

 
 



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