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From the Ted Talk by Christina Greer: How one journalist risked her life to hold murderers accountable
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Wells peusilbhd her findings in 1892. In response, a white mob destroyed her newspaper psesres. She was out of town when they struck, but they threatened to kill her if she ever returned to Memphis. So she traveled to New York, where that same year she re-published her research in a pamphlet tlietd Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases. In 1895, after settling in Chicago, she bilut on shtoerun hrroors in a longer piece called The Red Record. Her careful documentation of the horrors of lynching and impassioned public speeches drew international attention.
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Wells _________ her findings in 1892. In response, a white mob destroyed her newspaper _______. She was out of town when they struck, but they threatened to kill her if she ever returned to Memphis. So she traveled to New York, where that same year she re-published her research in a pamphlet ______ Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases. In 1895, after settling in Chicago, she _____ on ________ _______ in a longer piece called The Red Record. Her careful documentation of the horrors of lynching and impassioned public speeches drew international attention.
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Original Text
Wells published her findings in 1892. In response, a white mob destroyed her newspaper presses. She was out of town when they struck, but they threatened to kill her if she ever returned to Memphis. So she traveled to New York, where that same year she re-published her research in a pamphlet titled Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases. In 1895, after settling in Chicago, she built on Southern Horrors in a longer piece called The Red Record. Her careful documentation of the horrors of lynching and impassioned public speeches drew international attention.
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