Threadbare Lies

Making Lynching Racial
  • Christopher Waldrep

Abstract

On March 18, 1886, Ida B. Wells wrote in her diary that “the daily papers bring notice this morning that 13 colored men were shot down in cold blood yesterday.” The killings took place in Carrollton, Mississippi.1 Despite her wide reading, and despite her later fame as a fighter against lynching, this was Wells’s first comment on racial violence in her diary for 1886. Throughout the year, she wrote about only two episodes of whites’ racial violence.

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York Time Grand Jury Chicago Tribune Racial Violence Southern Black 
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