In the book A Red Record by Ida B. Wells, Wells discusses the main ideas on lynching in the south. She talks about the anarchy in the society, the missing of constitutional equality, and the sadism felt by white southerners. Wells argues that there was no constitutional equality for the African Americans, she said "The government which had made the Negro a citizen found itself unable to protect him. It gave him the right to vote, but denied him the protection which should have maintained that right".
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