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Lynch Law in Georgia

By Ida B. Wells-Barnett.

A Six-Weeks’ Record in the Center of Southern Civilization, As Faithfully Chronicled by the “Atlanta Journal” and the “Atlanta Constitution.” Also the full report ofLouis P. Levin. The Chicago Detective Sent to Investigate the Burning of Samuel Hose, the Torture and Hanging of Elijah Strickland, the Colored Preacher, and the Lynching of Nine Men for Alleged Arson. This Pamphlet is Circulated by Chicago Colored Citizens. 2939 Princeton Avenue, Chicago.

Harrow and Heston Classic Reprint. (1899) 20 pages.

The Red Record

By Ida B. Wells-Barnett.

Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States. “ From 1865 to 1872, hundreds of colored men and women were mercilessly murdered and the almost invariable reason assigned was that they met their death by being alleged participants in an insurrection or riot. But this story at last wore itself out. No insurrection ever materialized; no Negro rioter was ever apprehended and proven guilty, and no dynamite ever recorded the black man's protest against oppression and wrong.􏰎􏰍

Harrow and Heston Classic Reprint. (1895) 112 pages.

Anti-Lynching Crusaders

By Mrs. Mary B. Talbert and the anti-lynching crusaders..

Anti-Lynching crusaders are a band of women organized to stop lynching. Their slogan is: “A Million Women United To Stop Lynching.” They are trying to raise at least one dollar from every woman united with them and to finish this work on or before January 1st, 1923. ….How many people realize that since 1889 eighty-three women are known to have been lynched?

Harrow and Heston Classic Reprint. (1923) 8 pages.􏰁􏰂