Black Women Lynched: Mary Turner and Predecessors 1880s-1890s

Ida B. Wells documented multiple Black women lynched during the 1880s and 1890s. In A Red Record she listed cases including a woman in Jackson, Tennessee, hanged in 1886, and others across the South. Wells confronted the fiction that lynching was about protecting white women by documenting that Black women, who could not be accused of rape, were also murdered by mobs, proving the system was about racial terror and control.