The Red Record
Wells-Barrett, Ida
An important historical work, "The Red Record" is also a horrifying account of African American lynchings after the Civil War. Black Americans lost their lives for such offenses as offending a white person in some way, proposing marriage to a white woman, providing information to someone who asked, introducing smallpox, "conjuring, " and/or writing a letter to a white woman. In some cases, committing no offense at all (other than being Black) ...