The Red Record (Summarized Edition)

First published in 1895, The Red Record is Ida B. Wells-Barnett's uncompromising investigation of lynching in the post-Reconstruction United States. Mining court notices, eyewitness accounts, and annual tallies from papers like the Chicago Tribune, she assembles tables and case summaries that reveal economic rivalry, political repression, and sexual policing beneath the rhetoric of "protecting wom...