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Southern Horrors
- Letto da: Janina Edwards, Royal Jaye
- Durata: 1 ora e 3 min
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“If American conscience were only half alive, if the American church and clergy were only half christianized, if American moral sensibility were not hardened by a persistent infliction of outrage and crime against colored people, a scream of horror, shame and indignation would rise to Heaven wherever your pamphlet shall be read.” (Frederick Douglass, to Ida B. Wells-Barnett)
In 1892, investigative journalist Ida B. Wells-Barnett published a pamphlet with unflinching and honest descriptions of the cruelties being enacted against Black Americans in the South by their White neighbors. Wells’ poignant and raw reporting of the horrors of lynching scandalized many of her readers outside the South, yet the practice continued unimpeded for more than half a century after. Today, Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases is a sobering reminder that American racism and inequality did not simply end with emancipation - and that state-sanctioned oppression and violence can take different forms in different eras.
Ida B. Wells-Barnett was born into slavery in Mississippi in 1862 and was freed at the end of the American Civil War in 1865. Orphaned at the age of 16, she moved to Tennessee to become a schoolteacher and provide for her remaining family. She later became the co-owner of and reporter for the Memphis Free Speech and Headlight, a newspaper published on the grounds of a Baptist church and dedicated to social justice. Despite her life being threatened, her office being destroyed by a mob, and her family facing daily harassment, Wells remained an activist for civil and women’s rights for her entire life. She was one of the founders of the NAACP and was posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her reporting on the violence against African Americans. She died in Chicago in 1931.
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- shanicqua
- 15/04/2021
The Ugly Truth about this America
These are the truths we're going to tell generations from now! Our truths are us, our past, and our culture! They will never take that away!
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- Sundance
- 06/09/2022
Shameful
What a powerful sad story of how Black people were treated, we must do better.
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- Danielle
- 07/09/2021
Just OK!
I was expecting to learn something new to be moved but I wasn't It was just ok
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- Bridget Burke
- 03/05/2021
Everyone needs to listen!!
She gives you the answers in the last chapter! This is my 2nd book I have listened to and Wow! The Last chapter is definitely the best!
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- ElectedPeriphery
- 03/03/2021
Interesting
In a journey to supplement one’s knowledge on the history of race relations in America, I have found works by period authors such as Ida B. Wells to be extremely valuable. The perspective of persons of an era cannot be replicated through history books.
The work is short, well written and (somewhat surprisingly) impartial with well supported references. Great perspective that is definitely worth the short investment of time.
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