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The Red Record: A Landmark Account of Lynching, Racial Terror, and the Fight for Justice
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Publisher: Curated Collection Publishing
Pages: 126
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.44 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The Red Record is one of the most powerful and courageous works of American investigative journalism ever written. In this groundbreaking report, Ida B. Wells exposes the brutal reality of lynching in the United States and dismantles the lies used to excuse racial terror. With precision, moral force, and fearless clarity, Wells documents the violence inflicted on Black Americans and shows how silence, false accusation, and public indifference allowed injustice to flourish.
First published in 1895, The Red Record remains a searing historical document and an urgent call to conscience. Wells does not write from distance or abstraction; she writes as a witness, a journalist, and an advocate determined to force the nation to confront what it preferred to ignore. Her work combines evidence, testimony, statistics, and sharp argument to reveal the machinery of racial violence and the courage required to resist it.
More than a record of the past, this book is a testament to the power of truth-telling. Wells's voice is direct, unflinching, and unforgettable. She understood that facts could become a weapon against injustice, and The Red Record stands as one of the clearest examples of journalism used in defense of human dignity.
This edition is ideal for readers of American history, civil rights, journalism, African American studies, and social justice. It is not only an essential work by one of the most important women in American letters-it is a book that still challenges, informs, and moves readers today.
The Red Record belongs on the shelf of anyone who wants to understand the history of racial violence in America and the extraordinary courage of Ida B. Wells, whose fight for justice helped shape the conscience of a nation.
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