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Introduction
Wells explains why she is interrupting other work to tell this story: the New Orleans mob that, in the week after Robert Charles's death, beat, shot, and killed Black New Orleanians at will — told largely through the city's own hostile press.
Purpose of the pamphletReliance on the New Orleans Times-Democrat and Picayune's own reportingSam Hose and the prior Georgia burningsCall to the nation's conscience