Those Who Commit The Murders Write The Reports: The Brutal Reality of Life As A Black Woman In The American South By The Woman Who Inspired Rosa Parks

by Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Frederick Douglass (Foreword), Timeless Classics (Foreword)

Pulitzer Prize winning Ida B. Wells, also known as Ida B. Wells-Barnett documents the brutality of racism in the American South. This hard-hitting and often harrowing read is as relevant today as it was when first written as it provides the much-needed historical context to the need for the Black Lives Matter movement and the regime which has produced countless murders of innocent African-Americans. If you want to understand the political background to the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Michael Brown, Trayvon Martyn and Ahmaud Arbery you need to read this volume.

The book also adds to the depth of knowledge of what inspired Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr, Marcus Garvey, James Baldwin & Rosa Parks to stand up for their rights and what BLM activists and supporters are campaigning for today.

This volume comes with two forewords written by Frederick Douglass and access to three audiobooks.

209 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 8, 2021

About the author

Ida Bell Wells-Barnett (1862–1931) was an African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist and, with her husband, newspaper owner Ferdinand L. Barnett, an early leader in the civil rights movement. She documented lynching in the United States, showing how it was often a way to control or punish blacks who competed with whites, often under the guise of rape charges. She was active in women's rights and the women's suffrage movement, establishing several notable women's organizations. Wells was a skilled and persuasive rhetorician, and traveled internationally on lecture tours.

(from Wikipedia)