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![A Red Record.
Tabulated Statistics and
Alleged Causes of Lynchings in the United States, 1892-1893-
1894
The investigative journalist and activist Ida B.
Wells, later Wells-Barnett, spearheaded the anti-lynching movement in the United States.
Expanding on her groundbreaking expose
Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases
(1892), A Red Record used mainstream white newspapers to document a resurgence of white mob violence, finding that more than 10,000
African Americans had been killed by lynching in the South between 1864 and 1894. Wells compiled statistics on alleged offenses and the geographic distribution and extent of lynching, and tied whites' increased brutality and violence to their fear of African Americans' increased political power. Her conclusion exhorts anti-lynching advocates to "[t]ell the world the facts," for "When the Christian world knows the alarming growth and extent of outlawry in our land, some means will be found to stop itẠạ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:f6yya4ptvsu3cbc7mxkml66d/bafkreidng45wjtf24pugqvpwipamaionh5lbqun7pqxpq7fd2zh4glei6e)
![Email from Steve to Himself
[No Subject]
From: Steve Jobs
To: Steve Jobs
Subject:
Date: September 2, 2010, 11:08 p.m.
I grow little of the food I eat, and of the little I do grow I did not breed or perfect the seeds.
I do not make any of my own clothing.
I speak a language I did not invent or refine.
I did not discover the mathematics I use.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:f6yya4ptvsu3cbc7mxkml66d/bafkreib72sdjvjr6vrgmminssitbs522uf6y5qqs5oekb5at5yqshe5wdm)
![Title: Woman suffrage in Wyoming Territory. -- Scene at the polls in Cheyenne / from a photo. by Kirkland.
Date Created/Published: 1888 Nov. 24.
Medium: 1 print : wood engraving.
Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ds-13020 (digital file from original) LC-USZ62-106109 (b&w film copy neg.) LC-USZ62-2235 (b&w film copy neg.) LC-USZ6-2166 (b&w film copy neg.)
Call Number: Illus. in AP2.L52 1888 Case Y [P&P]
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Notes:
Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1888 Nov. 24, p. 229.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:f6yya4ptvsu3cbc7mxkml66d/bafkreiajki2zp6tnzawd4wcstcnscb6gtu7jftabrf5bqir2rikm66om5e)
