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Countdown to Ida B. Wells Birthday-In 1892 she published a pamphlet titled Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases, and A Red Record, 1892–1894. Having examined many accounts of lynching based on the alleged rape of white women, she concluded that Southerners concocted rape as an excuse to hide their real reason for lynchings: black economic progress, which threatened not only white Southerners pocketbooks, but also their ideas about black inferiority.
Posted on: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 11:04:02 +0000

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