A Red Record: Wells Publishes Comprehensive Lynching Statistics

Wells publishes A Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynchings in the United States 1892-1893-1894, the most comprehensive lynching study to date. Using only white Southern press sources to preempt dismissal, she documents 241 lynchings in 1892 alone. The work systematically refutes each justification for mob violence and calls on Congress to pass federal anti-lynching legislation — a call that goes unanswered for decades.