Table of Contents
Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases
By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
PREFACE
HON. FRED. DOUGLASS'S LETTER
THE OFFENSE
THE BLACK AND WHITE OF IT
THE NEW CRY
THE MALICIOUS AND UNTRUTHFUL WHITE PRESS
THE SOUTH'S POSITION
SELF-HELP
The Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States
CONTENTS
1
THE CASE STATED
2
LYNCH-LAW STATISTICS
3
LYNCHING IMBECILES
(An Arkansas Butchery)
4
LYNCHING OF INNOCENT MEN
(Lynched on Account of Relationship)
5
LYNCHED FOR ANYTHING OR NOTHING
(Lynched for Wife Beating)
6
HISTORY OF SOME CASES OF RAPE
7
THE CRUSADE JUSTIFIED
(Appeal from America to the World)
8
MISS WILLARD'S ATTITUDE
9
LYNCHING RECORD FOR 1894
10
THE REMEDY
MOB RULE IN NEW ORLEANS: ROBERT CHARLES AND HIS FIGHT TO DEATH, THE STORY OF HIS LIFE, BURNING HUMAN BEINGS ALIVE, OTHER LYNCHING STATISTICS
INTRODUCTION
MOB RULE IN NEW ORLEANS
SHOT AN OFFICER