A Red Record
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This NYPL Treasure features "A Red Record," by investigative journalist Ida B. Wells.
Join Cheryl Beredo of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture as she explores “A Red Record,” an account of lynchings in the United States, by journalist Ida B. Wells from 1895. This copy is now a part of the NYPL’s Polonsky Exhibition.
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A Red Record
Episode 5 | 58sVideo has Closed Captions
Join Cheryl Beredo of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture as she explores “A Red Record,” an account of lynchings in the United States, by journalist Ida B. Wells from 1895. This copy is now a part of the NYPL’s Polonsky Exhibition.
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Wells, originally published in 1895.
The investigative journalist and activist Ida B.
Wells spearheaded the anti-lynching movement in the United States.
Expanding on her groundbreaking expose "Southern Horrors" "Lynch Law," and all its phases from 1892, "A Red Record" used mainstream white newspapers to document a resurgence of white mob violence, finding that more than 10,000 African Americans had been killed by lynching in the South between 1864 and 1894.
She did an incredible thing for American history, and that was to show the extent of white violence against Black people in the United States after Emancipation and after the Civil War, and it laid the groundwork for understanding all kinds of things about the United States.
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