In A Red Record, Ida B. Wells-Barnett wrote extensively about the atrocities of lynching and brought attention to it through her writings to encourage others to act.
Discuss the crime of lynching by identifying the three reasons Wells-Barnett references in her writings as the “causes” for lynching.
Explain her rationale for why these reasons were faulty at best in justifying lynching.
Finally, if you lived during this time period, would you have been as vocal as Wells-Barnett in speaking out against lynching.
