America Awakened

A classic of investigative journalism the pamphlets of Ida B. Wells-Barnett shine a light on the evils of racism in the United States. With a contextual introduction and useful footnotes this book gives students an opportunity to analyze and interpret primary texts. The book includes the full text of <i>Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases</i>; <i>The Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States</i>; and <i>Mob Rule in New Orleans: Robert Charles and His Fight to Death the Story of His Life Burning Human Beings Alive and Other Lynching Statistics</i>.