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How Ida B. Wells Campaigned to Expose the Lies Behind the Lynchings

How Ida B. Wells Campaigned to Expose the Lies Behind the Lynchings

Philip Dray on the Murder of Robert Lewis and Wells's Anti-Lynching Exposés

By Philip Dray | June 2, 2022

The Wrong Kind of Redemption: A Civil War That Never Ended

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By Philip Dray | April 8, 2019

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By Philip Dray | May 4, 2018

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