[Gutenberg 14976] • Mob Rule in New Orleans / Robert Charles and His Fight to Death, the Story of His Life, Burning Human Beings Alive, Other Lynching Statistics

• Illustrated edition

• Ten new original drawings and art that starkly illustrate the message of this work

• Appendix with public domain photos of lynchings

• Includes two additional essays: "The Red Record," and "Mob Rule in New Orleans"

This is perhaps the most important civil rights classic you have never read.

First published in 1892, Ida B. Wells' scathing essay on the horrors of lynching and, more importantly, the upholding of these atrocities by law in the southern United States years after the Civil War had already been won, serves now as an important reminder of our not-too-distant past and its effects on our present racial tensions. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, so it is appropriate that we remember one of the early leaders of the African-American Civil Rights Movement with her own first-hand account of lynching and her eloquent outrage expressed here.

This book includes her famous essay of 6 short sections along with a preface by the author and a letter from Frederick Douglass praising her for her courage in writing this.

This edition includes an appendix of several public-domain photographs of lynchings, which, however disturbing, show how little time has passed since these atrocities occurred.

Recent events beg us to ask ourselves, how far have we come? It may be time to reexamine this, beginning with Ms. Well's treatise.

This edition of Southern Horrors includes two other important essays by Ida B. Wells on the same subject of lynching. The two essays that follow “Southern Horrors” elaborate and strengthen the argument Wells lays out in her first, more famous tract and readers deserve to have all three available within the same book.

SOUTHERN HORRORS: Lynch Law in All Its Phases

THE RED RECORD: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States

MOB RULE IN NEW ORLEANS: Robert Charles and His Fight to Death, the Story of his Life, Burning Human Beings Alive, and Other Lynching Statistics