Wells puts her research on lynching into print: Southern Horrors

By the fall of 1892, Ida B. Wells had already lost her newspaper and her home city to a mob. On October 26, 1892, she began publishing her findings in a pamphlet titled Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases, laying out case after case that disproved the claim that lynching victims were criminals caught in the act. She traced the violence instead to white fear of Black economic and political gain. She continued the investigative method in later pamphlets for the rest of her career…