The Red Record and Other Essays

The Red Record and Other Essays is a collection of writing by Ida B. Wells-Barnett. Wells-Barnett was an African-American activist, journalist, teacher, newspaper editor, a popular public speaker and sociologist. Wells-Barnett was an early civil rights leader and one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

Included:

1. The Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States
2. Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases
3. Mob Rule in New Orleans: Robert Charles and his Fight to Death, The Story of his Life, Burning Human Beings Alive, Other Lynching Statistics