When three of her friends were lynched in Memphis in 1892, Ida B. Wells did not mourn quietly. She investigated, gathered evidence, and published this pamphlet demolishing the excuses commonly used to justify lynching, at real risk to her own life.
Wells was one of the first investigative journalists in America to apply hard evidence to a subject built on public silence and fear. Southern Horrors remains a landmark of fearless, evidence based writing against injustice.
