Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases

Originally published in 1892, ‘Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases’ is a pamphlet written by Ida Bell Wells-Barnett, an African-American socialist who documented lynching in the United States, which is the practice of killing people by extrajudicial mob action.

This pamphlet is a research on lynching against the black people, by white race after Civil War period. The author protest three excuses of lynching with valid reasons; Black race planned many riots and whites resisted it; N...