#red record

To humbly wrap up Black History Month 2026 (and kicking off Women's History Month 2026) celebrating the bravery of (who else?) Ida B. Wells --anti-lynching crusader, journalist, and author: https://www.petervintonjr.com/blm/lesson33.html

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This map was submitted to Congress in 1922 to support an anti-lynching bill introduced by Representative Leonidas Dyer of Missouri. The Dyer bill had already passed in the House and awaited a vote in the Senate.

Issued by the Colored Women’s Clubs of Michigan, the “Red Record” shows the distribution of lynchings by state and specifically calls out Northern congressmen who voted against the Dyer bill.

The map’s title pays homage to an influential work by African-American journalist and anti-lynching crusader Ida B. Wells-Barnett, A Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynchings in the United States (1895).

The purpose of the Dyer bill was “to assure to persons within the jurisdiction of every State the equal protection of the laws, and to punish the crime of lynching.” It classified lynching as a felony and specified punishments for perpetrators and for state and local officials who failed to protect people in their custody.

The Dyer bill fell victim to a filibuster led by senators from Alabama and Mississippi. The same strategy was used in the Senate to block the two other anti-lynching bills that cleared the House during the twentieth century.

In 2005, the Senate approved a resolution formally apologizing for its failure to enact anti-lynching legislation.

Red Record

2014

Experimenting with ways of analyzing intra-textual relationships in Wells's work. Here are a couple of graphs applying the TexTexture tool to Ida B. Wells's The Red Record (1895).

Just below is a basic graph indicating conceptual nodes and density around them...

...while just below here is a graph tracing relationships among concepts more explicitly through labeling and color-coding...