Southern Horrors: Wells Publishes Landmark Anti-Lynching Investigation

Wells publishes Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases, a 23-page pamphlet funded by Black New Yorkers. Using white Southern newspaper data, she shows most lynching victims are not accused of rape and many 'rape' cases involve consensual relationships. Frederick Douglass writes the preface, calling it the first statistical refutation of the pro-lynching argument.