In July 1900 a confrontation between police and Robert Charles, a Black labourer, set off days of white mob violence in New Orleans. Wells-Barnett reconstructs Charles’s last stand and the riot from press reports, defends his character, and adds accounts of burnings alive and her statistics of lynching across the country.
Fearless investigative journalism by the great anti-lynching campaigner, and a vital document in the history of racial violence in America. Download the free EPUB.