The bleak years after the Civil War brought continuing oppression to African Americans.
This compilation features Southern Horrors, Wells\'s first pamphlet on the subject of lynching, as well as its successors, A Red.
So began the civil rights pioneer\'s crusade against lynching.
Wells-Barnett raised a lone voice of protest and was forced to flee for her life.
In 1892, Memphis newspaper editor Ida B.
During the 1880s and 1890s, more than 100 black citizens were lynched each year.
The bleak years after the Civil War brought continuing oppression to African Americans