Why is the Negro Lynched?
Why is the Negro Lynched?

Author: Frederick Douglass

Publisher: Lindhardt og Ringhof

Published: 2022-09-13

Total Pages: 54

ISBN-13: 8728384660

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Written just a year before his death, ‘Why is the Negro Lynched?’ is one of Douglass’ most moving and passionate speeches. Still sadly-pertinent today, his skill as a wordsmith is captured in passages that discuss everything from law and respect for human life to religion and the necessity for belonging. An expert orator, Douglass presents his arguments as though they were part of a court case, deftly switching between the roles of prosecution and defence, before passing sentence against the white establishment of the time. An important book for anyone and everyone. Frederick Douglass (1818-1995) was an American abolitionist and author. Born into slavery in Maryland, he was of African, European, and Native American descent. He was separated from his mother at a young age and lived with his grandmother until he was moved to another plantation. Frederick was taught his alphabet by the wife of one of his owners, a knowledge he passed on to other slaves. In 1838, he successfully escaped slavery by jumping on a north-bound train. After less than 24 hours, he was in New York and free. The same year, he married the woman that had inspired his run for freedom and started working actively as a social reformer, orator, statesman, and women’s rights defender. He remains most known today for his 1845 autobiography "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave."

Ida: A Sword Among Lions
Ida: A Sword Among Lions

Author: Paula J. Giddings

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2009-10-06

Total Pages: 821

ISBN-13: 0061972940

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Pulitzer Prize Board citation to Ida B. Wells, as an early pioneer of investigative journalism and civil rights icon From a thinker who Maya Angelou has praised for shining “a brilliant light on the lives of women left in the shadow of history,” comes the definitive biography of Ida B. Wells—crusading journalist and pioneer in the fight for women’s suffrage and against segregation and lynchings Ida B. Wells was born into slavery and raised in the Victorian age yet emerged—through her fierce political battles and progressive thinking—as the first “modern” black women in the nation’s history. Wells began her activist career when she tried to segregate a first-class railway car in Memphis. After being thrown bodily off the car, she wrote about the incident for black Baptist newspapers, thus beginning her career as a journalist. But her most abiding fight would be the one against lynching, a crime in which she saw all the themes she held most dear coalesce: sexuality, race, and the law.

The Truth About Lynching and the Negro in the South
The Truth About Lynching and the Negro in the South

Author: Winfield H. Collins

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-09-07

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 9781333492779

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Excerpt from The Truth About Lynching and the Negro in the South: In Which the Author Pleads That the South Be Made Safe for the White Race IT is generally supposed that the custom or practice of lynching in this country had its origin in the method of punishment used by a Virginian farmer named Lynch, who during the Revolution ary War sought in this way to maintain order in his community or section, - hence, Lynch's Law, and Lynch law, from which comes the word lynching. In the beginning, however, the term seldom, if ever, conveyed the meaning to put to death; nor does it appear that Negroes were lynched even so often as whites. The methods Of punishment in the majority of cases consisted of riding the victim on a rail, beating or whipping him, and often of giving him a coat of tar and feathers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Red Record
The Red Record

Author: Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Publisher: Echo Library

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13: 1846375924

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Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States