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Ida B. Wells-Barnett
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"Wells-Barnett's famous pamphlet...helped expose the horror of lynching. It continues to shock and inform." -Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), Feb. 25, 2007
In 1899, Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862 1931) published a short 60-page account relating her investigation into lynchings in Georgia, titled "Lynch Law in Georgia."
In introducing her book, Wells-Barnett writes:
"During six weeks of the months of March and April just past, twelve colored men were lynched in Georgia, the reign of outlawry culminating in the torture and hanging of the colored preacher, Elijah Strickland, and the burning alive of Samuel Wilkes, alias Hose, Sunday, April 23, 1899. The real purpose of these savage demonstrations is to teach the Negro that in the South he has no rights that the law will enforce."
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