Southern Horrors and Other Writings
What is mob violence? Well, nowadays, mob violence differs in comparison to mob violence in the nineteenth century. In the years following the Civil War, there was a lot of mistreatment of African Americans. Ida B. Wells, a young African American journalist, investigated and accounted for the violence acted upon the African Americans during the Post-Reconstruction period. Wells wrote about her investigations because she belied it was the "first step to tell the world the facts" and to make lynching "a crime against American values"(27). In the book Southern Horrors and Other Writings, Royster discussed the mob violence of the lower South and the steps that Wells took to end this violence.During the nineteenth century, a lot of different acts of mob violence were done to the African Americans in the South. Wells focused on lynching of African Americans by the mob. The reasons given for lynching were "allegations of murder, burglary, arson, poisoning water and livestock, insulting whites, being insolent, and other perceived 'offenses,' and sometimes they were lynched on no charges at all"(29). These reasons were not very legitimate. The lynchings could have been handled in a different way as in a court and jury, not b
The statistics showed that "more than ten-thousand Negroes have been killed in cold blood, without judicial trial and only three white men have been tried, convicted, and executed"(75-76). This shows that at the time of Reconstruction, violence toward African Americans increased rapidly. Wells reported in A Red Record that "during a single year, 1892, 241 men, women, and children across 26 states were lynched. She wanted the African American women to be seen equally. It didn't end but the figures did decrease greatly. Wells did all she could to protect the African Americans from the mob. On her first tour, she campaigned and sent copies of her doings back to Memphis. Many African American men were lynched for alleged rape of white women even though they had been in a relationship with these women. Wells investigated lynchings, wrote newspaper articles and editorials, spoke about mob violence, and joined organizations to prevent violence. She took several steps to achieve her crusades to end mob violence. The mob violence really attacked the African Americans to a point where they had no say in the doings. Wells wrote a pamphlet Southern Horrors that described violence. Wells hoped that all her doings would help improve the lives of African American women.
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