A review by kikiandarrowsfishshelf
The Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States by Ida B. Wells-Barnett

5.0

This is the type of book that really doesn't merit anything less than 5 stars, but you can't say you enjoyed it. Wells book should be read simply for what it tells you and how it educates you. Lynching, it seems, is not being taught much or well in schools. For instance, I have students who have no idea about "Strange Fruit". They know what lynching is, but seem to have an idea that it was a hiccup.

They should read Wells book.

My teachers made sure we knew about it, looking back this was most likely because one of them was a descendent of Sally Hemmings (and Jefferson) and one had grand parents who were murdered in the Holocaust. But even with that education there was much here that I didn't know. For instance, some people were lynched for wife beating. Wife beating. For proposing.

Honesty, just read it.