Southern Horrors: Wells Publishes Landmark Anti-Lynching Investigation

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