Southern Horrors: Lynch Law In All Its Phases: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Southern Horrors: Lynch Law In All Its Phases, credited to Ida B. Wells, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Southern Horrors: Lynch Law In All Its Phases, by Ida B. Wells (1862 - 1931). Read by James K. White and Laura Victoria. Thoroughly appalled and sickened by the rising numbers of white-on-black murders in the South since the beginning of Reconstruction, and by the unwillingness of local, state and federal governments to prosecute those who were responsible, Ida Bell Wells-Barnett wrote Southern Horrors, a pamphlet in which she exposed the horrible reality of lynchings to the rest of the nation and to the world. Wells explained, through case study, how the federal government's failure to intervene allowed Southern states the latitude to slowly but effectively disenfranchise blacks from participating as free men and women in a post-Civil War America with the rights and opportunities guaranteed to all Americans by the Constitution. (Summary by James K. White )

Recording facts

• Recording title: Southern Horrors: Lynch Law In All Its Phases
• Author credits: Ida B. Wells
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 7
• Listed recording duration: 1:07:45

Catalogue topics

• lynching
• history
• pamphlet

Track guide

1. 0 - Preface & Hon. Frederick Douglass's Letter — 4:50
2. 1 - The Offense — 7:29
3. 2 - The Black and White of It — 17:24
4. 3 - The New Cry — 7:00
5. 4 - The Malicious and Untruthful White Press — 12:22
6. 5 - The South's Position — 6:33
7. 6 - Self-Help — 12:09

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