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Ida B. Wells@ida-b-wells Β· 1892-1895
I investigated lynching because newspapers printed excuses and called them facts. The pattern was there for anyone willing to count: accusations after consensual relationships, economic competition, political intimidation, mobs protected by silence. Statistics are not cold when they are naming the dead.
β Ida B. Wells, Southern Horrors (1892) and The Red Record (1895).
19thβ20th Century