Mob Rule in New Orleans: Robert Charles & His Fight to Death, The Story of His Life, Burning Human Beings Alive, & Other Lynching Statistics - With Introductory Chapters by Irvine Garland Penn and T. Thomas Fortune
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Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Born a slave, Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862–1931) became one of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries' most powerful voices for justice and against the brutality of lynching. Her unflinching journalistic accounts shed light on the evils and persistence of racism in the United States. Wells-Barnett was one of the original founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Her groundbreaking activism laid the foundation for the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. In 2020, she was posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her “outstanding and courageous reporting on the horrific and vicious violence against African Americans during the era of lynching.”
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Mob Rule in New Orleans - Ida B. Wells-Barnett
MOB RULE IN
NEW ORLEANS
ROBERT CHARLES &
HIS FIGHT TO DEATH,
THE STORY OF HIS LIFE,
BURNING HUMAN BEINGS ALIVE,
& OTHER LYNCHING STATISTICS
By
IDA B. WELLS-BARNETT
WITH
INTRODUCTORY CHAPTERS BY
IRVINE GARLAND PENN AND
T. THOMAS FORTUNE
First published in 1900
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Contents
MISS IDA B. WELLS (IOLA)
By Irvine Garland Penn
IDA B. WELLS, A. M.
By T. Thomas Fortune
INTRODUCTION
SHOT AN OFFICER
DEATH OF CHARLES
MOB BRUTALITY
SHOCKING BRUTALITY
MURDER ON THE LEVEE
A VICTIM IN THE MARKET
A GRAY-HAIRED VICTIM
FUN IN GRETNA
BRUTALITY IN NEW ORLEANS
WAS CHARLES A DESPERADO?
DIED IN SELF-DEFENSE
BURNING HUMAN BEINGS ALIVE
LYNCHING RECORD
MISS IDA B. WELLS (IOLA)
GENERAL NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENT AND ASSOCIATE EDITRESS
By Irvine Garland Penn
That perseverance overcomes all obstacles,
is fully verified in the life and character of Miss I. B. Wells, who was born at Holly Springs, Ark., and reared and educated there. Her parents died while she was attending Rust University, which compelled her to leave school in order that she might support her five brothers and sisters, all being younger than herself.
She taught her first school at the age of fourteen, and with this work and journalism she has been an incessant laborer. She has taught in the schools of Arkansas and Tennessee, and has at various times been offered like positions elsewhere; but preferring to teach her people in the South, she has continued to labor there. For six years she has followed her vocation as teacher, in the city of Memphis.
During this time she began to write for the press. Her first article was a write-up,
at the request of the editor, of a suit for damages, in which she was the complainant. This paper was The Living Way, which she contributed to for the space of two years. This engagement introduced her to the newspaper fraternity as a writer of superb ability, and therefore demands for her services began to come in. T. Thomas Fortune, after meeting her, wrote as follows: She has become famous as one of the few of our women who handle a goose-quill, with diamond point, as easily as any man in the newspaper work. If Iola were a man, she would be a humming independent in politics. She has plenty of nerve, and is as sharp as a steel trap.
She is now the regular correspondent of The Detroit Plaindealer, Christian Index, and The People's Choice. She is also part owner and editor of The Memphis Free Speech and Head Light, and editress of the Home
department of Our Women and Children, of which Dr. William J, Simmons is publisher. Decidedly, Iola
is a great success in journalism, and we can but feel proud of a woman whose ability and energy serves to make her so. She is popular with all the journalists of Afro-American connection, as will be seen by her election as assistant secretary of the National Afro-American Press Convention, at Louisville, two years ago, and her unanimous election as secretary of the recent Press Convention, which met at Washington, D. C, March 4, 1889. Miss Lucy W. Smith gives an account of the many papers to which Iola
has contributed.
In summing up her character as a writer, we can but say Amen
to what Miss Smith says of her: Miss Ida B. Wells,
Iola, has been called the
Princess of the Press," and she has well earned the title. No writer, the male fraternity not excepted, has been more extensively quoted; none struck harder blows at the wrongs and weaknesses of the race.
Miss Wells' readers are equally divided between the sexes. She reaches the men by dealing with the political aspect of the race question, and the women she meets around the fireside, She is an inspiration to the young writers, and her success has lent an impetus to their ambition. When the National Press Convention, of which she was assistant secretary, met in Louisville, she read a splendidly written paper on
Women in Journalism; or, How I would Edit."
"By the way, it is her ambition to edit a paper. She believes that there is no agency so potent as the press, in reaching and elevating a people. Her contributions are distributed among the leading race journals. She made her debut with The Living Way, Memphis, Tenn., and has since written for The New York Age, Detroit Plaindealer, Indianapolis World, Gate City Press, Mo., Little Rock Sun, American Baptist, Ky., Memphis Watchman, Chattanooga Justice, Christian Index, Fisk University Herald, Tenn., Our Women and Children Magazine, Ky., and the Memphis papers, weeklies and dailies. Miss Wells has attained much success as a teacher in the public schools of the last-named place. All in all, we are proud to own Miss Wells as our
Mrs. Frank Leslie."
A chapter from
The Afro-American Press and Its Editors, Part Second, 1891
IDA B. WELLS, A. M.
By T. Thomas Fortune
One of the marvels of modern society is the honorable position which woman has secured in the affairs of mankind. She is no longer a cipher; she is a positive force. Regnant in the home, a co-ordinate force in the movements which make for human happiness, she must reckon in every accurate estimate of contention or achievement. In what manner she has arisen from the thralldom of ancient times is answered by the grasp which Christianity has secured upon a large portion of mankind. Only in Christian countries has woman secured a measure of equality with the forceful agents that make the world's history. In pagan countries she is still the idol of the harem or the beast of burden for the peasant.
It is a notable fact that in the anti-slavery struggle women contribited almost as largely as men to the moulding of public opinion necessary to the manumission of the slave. Women such as Lucretia Mott, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Sojourner Truth, Lydia Maria Childs, Anna Dickinson and others were towers of strength as well as inspiration. The work before the Afro-American, comprehending the intricate problems of his relation as a man and citizen, I feel safe in saying will never be performed as it should be until we have a race of women competent to do more than bear a brood of negative men. That such a womanhood, untainted by the horrible moral malformation and obliquity of slave masters, is already a possibility we have sufficient evidence.
Ida B. Wells, the oldest issue of James and Elizabeth Wells, the subject of this sketch, was born at the beautiful town of Holly Springs, Miss., in the midst of a fateful epoch. Great moral questions were uppermost in the public