NMLP P-035893 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-09

Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases

Ida B. Wells · New York Age Print (New York) · 1892

Much of its text had first appeared in expanded form as Wells's front-page piece 'Exiled,' published in the New York Age on June 25, 1892, about a month after a Memphis mob destroyed the press of her own paper, the Free Speech, having traced to Wells an earlier, separate unsigned Free Speech editorial that had questioned the rape pretext used to justify lynching

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-035893 for "Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases" by Ida B. Wells (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-035893, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).