Project Gutenberg 2005-02-08 Public domain in the USA. 2680 Wells-Barnett, Ida B. 1862 1931 Wells, Ida B. Iola The Red Record Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States Produced by Suzanne Shell, Melissa Er-Raqabi and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net “The Red Record” by Ida B. Wells-Barnett is a historical account written in the late 19th century. This work serves as a powerful and harrowing examination of lynching in the United States, particularly focusing on its impact on African Americans in the South. The text collects and analyzes statistics regarding lynching incidents, scrutinizing the justification of such acts and providing commentary on the societal implications and underlying racial biases of that era. The opening of the pamphlet establishes the context for Wells-Barnett's investigation, addressing the severe moral indifference of American society towards lynchings that had become alarmingly commonplace by 1894. In her preface, letters from notable figures, such as Frederick Douglass, emphasize the need for her work to expose the grave injustices faced by Black individuals, given the overwhelming statistics of murders without judicial process. The beginning chapters outline various excuses historically employed by white southerners to justify such brutal acts, probing into the concepts of racial violence, societal complicity, and the deeply entrenched systems of oppression that not only allowed for but effectively encouraged such lawlessness. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 66.7 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. en African Americans -- History -- 1877-1964 Lynching -- United States Lynching -- United States -- Statistics HV Text Crime Nonfiction African American Writers Category: History - American Category: History - Modern (1750+) Category: Sociology Category: Politics 234915 2025-07-06T11:55:11.920306 text/html 232889 2020-12-19T10:44:04 text/html 605942 2025-07-06T11:55:17.646300 application/epub+zip 608052 2025-07-06T11:55:13.977350 application/epub+zip 150582 2025-07-06T11:55:12.551318 application/epub+zip 415229 2025-07-06T11:55:20.253254 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 397916 2025-07-06T11:55:16.667324 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 232281 2022-09-07T19:17:30.642597 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 221045 2025-07-06T11:55:11.524327 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 221017 2020-12-19T10:44:04 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 221008 2020-12-19T10:44:03 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 22752 2025-07-06T11:55:20.380297 application/rdf+xml 9250 2025-07-06T11:55:13.039322 image/jpeg 2654 2025-07-06T11:55:12.793324 image/jpeg 84830 2020-12-19T10:44:04 application/octet-stream application/zip 482749 2020-12-19T10:44:04 application/octet-stream application/zip 84815 2020-12-19T10:44:04 application/octet-stream application/zip 539080 2025-07-06T11:55:11.948324 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia