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The Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States
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What is Wells's central demand in the closing chapter, as distinct from a demand that lynching victims be presumed innocent?
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A fair trial by law for those accused of crime, and punishment by law after honest conviction — she explicitly does not claim all lynching victims were innocent, only that guilt must be proven rather than assumed
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That Black defendants be tried only by all-Black juries
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That the federal government confiscate the property of any state where a lynching occurs
D
That lynching be legalized but restricted to convicted felons only
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