The public record of lynchings in the United States shows that during the post–Civil War era, lynching and other acts of mob violence steadily increased. While the victims of lynchings across the nation still included whites, Native Americans, Chicanos, and Asians, by 1892 the majority of victims were African American, and the majority of these murders were in the South. Through newspaper articles in the New York Age and later in the Chicago Conservator, in her 1892 book Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases, and in lectures throughout the United States and Great Britain, journalist Ida B. Wells demanded that the United States confront and put an end to lynching.