Lynch Law in Georgia by Ida B. Wells
Black and Education
English - April 21, 2023 20:45 - 8 minutes - 16.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsSociety & Culture History Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Ida B. Wells wrote about several incidences in Georgia, in 1899. This is an
excerpt of the murders of several men, who were tied together in a
warehouse, awaiting trial the next morning on the accusation of arson.
“That the awful story of their slaughter may not be considered overdrawn,
the following description is taken from the columns of the Atlanta Journal
, as it was written by Royal Daniel, a staff correspondent. The story of
the lynching thus told is as follows :