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The Red Record:
Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Preface
Contents
1: The Case Stated
2: Lynch-Law Statistics
3: Lynching Imbeciles (An Arkansas Butchery)
Tortured and Burned in Texas
Meeting of Citizens
Burned at the Stake
Torture Beyond Description
Should Have Been in an Asylum
4: Lynching of Innocent Men (Lynched on Account of Relationship)
An Indiana Case
Killed for His Stepfather's Crime
Lynched Because the Jury Acquitted Him
Lynched as a Scapegoat
5: Lynched for Anything or Nothing (Lynched for Wife Beating)
Hanged for Stealing Hogs
Lynched for No Offense
Lynched Because They Were Saucy
Lynched on a Quarrel
Suspected, Innocent and Lynched
Lynched for an Attempted Assault
6: History of Some Cases of Rape
A White Woman's Falsehood
Tried to Manufacture Outrage
Burned Alive for Adultery
Not Identified, But Lynched
Delivered to the Mob by the Governor of the State
Lynched as a Warning
Suppressing the Truth
A Vile Slander with Scant Retraction
Illinois Has a Lynching
Color Line Justice
7: The Crusade Justified (Appeal from America to the World)
Awful Barbarism Ignored
Memphis Then and Now
An Alabama Horror Ignored
America Awakened
A Friendly Warning
8: Miss Willard's Attitude
Lady Somerset's Interview with Miss Willard
9: Lynching Record for 1894
10: The Remedy
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