title: Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases
author:  Ida B. Wells-Barnett 
description: Ida B. Wells was an African-American woman who achieved national and international fame as a journalist, public speaker, and community activist. Her three short books that constitute her major works during the anti-lynching movement are: Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases, A Red Record, and Mob Rule in New Orleans.
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  # Southern Horrors
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Ida B. Wells-Barnett
  
  
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  PREFACE
  
  
  HON. FRED. DOUGLASS'S LETTER
  
  
  1 The OFFENSE
  
  
  2 The BLACK and WHITE of IT
  
  
  3 The NEW CRY
  
  
  4 The MALICIOUS and UNTRUTHFUL WHITE PRESS
  
  
  5 The SOUTH'S POSITION
  
  
  6 SELF-HELP
  
  
  
  
  
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  Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases
  
  
  1892, 1893, 1894
  
  
  By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### PREFACE
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
    
  
  
    
  
  
    
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