Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases
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Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases is an 1892 pamphlet by Ida B. Wells that exposes and condemns the brutality and false justifications of lynching in the United States.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases Context triple: [Ida B. Wells, notableWork, Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases]
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A.
Negro Life at the South
"Negro Life at the South" is an 1859 genre painting by American artist Eastman Johnson that depicts the everyday lives of enslaved African Americans in a Washington, D.C. backyard, offering a complex, nuanced view of slavery on the eve of the Civil War.
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B.
The Clansman: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan
The Clansman: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan is a 1905 white supremacist novel by Thomas Dixon Jr. that glorifies the Ku Klux Klan and provided the basis for D. W. Griffith’s film The Birth of a Nation.
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C.
A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States
A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States is a mid-19th-century travel narrative and social commentary that examines the economy, society, and conditions of slavery in the American South.
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D.
Black Reconstruction in America
Black Reconstruction in America is W. E. B. Du Bois’s landmark historical study that reinterprets the Reconstruction era as a period of Black political agency and class struggle, challenging dominant racist narratives in U.S. historiography.
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E.
Ten Days in a Mad-House
"Ten Days in a Mad-House" is an 1887 investigative exposé by journalist Nellie Bly recounting her undercover experience in a New York insane asylum, which helped spark major reforms in mental health care.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases Target entity description: Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases is an 1892 pamphlet by Ida B. Wells that exposes and condemns the brutality and false justifications of lynching in the United States.
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A.
Negro Life at the South
"Negro Life at the South" is an 1859 genre painting by American artist Eastman Johnson that depicts the everyday lives of enslaved African Americans in a Washington, D.C. backyard, offering a complex, nuanced view of slavery on the eve of the Civil War.
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B.
The Clansman: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan
The Clansman: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan is a 1905 white supremacist novel by Thomas Dixon Jr. that glorifies the Ku Klux Klan and provided the basis for D. W. Griffith’s film The Birth of a Nation.
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C.
A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States
A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States is a mid-19th-century travel narrative and social commentary that examines the economy, society, and conditions of slavery in the American South.
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D.
Black Reconstruction in America
Black Reconstruction in America is W. E. B. Du Bois’s landmark historical study that reinterprets the Reconstruction era as a period of Black political agency and class struggle, challenging dominant racist narratives in U.S. historiography.
-
E.
Ten Days in a Mad-House
"Ten Days in a Mad-House" is an 1887 investigative exposé by journalist Nellie Bly recounting her undercover experience in a New York insane asylum, which helped spark major reforms in mental health care.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
anti-lynching text
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non-fiction work ⓘ pamphlet ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
challenge myths about Black men and sexual violence
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expose brutality of lynching ⓘ mobilize opposition to lynching ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
American civil rights movement
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surface form:
African-American civil rights movement
anti-lynching movement ⓘ |
| author | Ida B. Wells ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| criticizes |
Southern racial customs
ⓘ
extrajudicial killings ⓘ false justifications for lynching ⓘ lynch law ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | Memphis ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
legal injustice
ⓘ
mob violence ⓘ violence against African Americans ⓘ |
| genre |
African-American literature
ⓘ
political pamphlet ⓘ social justice literature ⓘ |
| hasAuthorEthnicity | African American ⓘ |
| hasAuthorOccupation |
civil rights activist
ⓘ
journalist ⓘ |
| hasForm |
pamphlet
ⓘ
printed text ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
criminal justice
ⓘ
gender and race politics ⓘ racial terror ⓘ |
| historicalContext | post-Reconstruction United States ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod |
Jim Crow laws
ⓘ
surface form:
Jim Crow era
|
| influenced |
later anti-lynching activism
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subsequent civil rights discourse ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainTopic |
civil rights
ⓘ
false accusations of rape ⓘ lynching in the United States ⓘ racial violence ⓘ white supremacy ⓘ |
| movement | African-American anti-lynching campaign ⓘ |
| notableFor |
challenging dominant white narratives about lynching
ⓘ
early systematic documentation of lynching ⓘ use of statistics and case studies ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1892 ⓘ |
| timeOfPublication | late 19th century ⓘ |
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Subject: Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases Description of subject: Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases is an 1892 pamphlet by Ida B. Wells that exposes and condemns the brutality and false justifications of lynching in the United States.
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subject surface form:
Ida B. Wells