Four of Ida B. Wells-Barnett's anti-lynching essays are presented in this volume. Written during the height of the lynching craze at the turn of the century, they speak to the pain and loss caused by racist thought and action.

Southern horrors : lynch law in all its phases -- The reason why the colored American is not in the world's Columbian exposition -- A red record : tabulated statistics and alleged causes of lynching in the United States, 1892-1893-1894 -- Mob rule in New Orleans : Robert Charles and his fight to the death.