Public Burnings Of Black Americans

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America’s lynching of Black Americans was often accompanied by public burnings of Black people too. In her autobiography, “Crusade for Justice,” Ida B. Wells discusses lynch mobs burning black people alive. This is what she had to say about a Black man who had been falsely accused of a crime, and subsequently burned to death: […]

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Photos Of Lynchings Sold As Postcards & The Story Of Jess Washington

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Billie Holiday: Strange Fruit

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When Billie Holiday bravely recorded “Strange Fruit,” as a protest to the lynchings that were happening across the nation, she literally put her life and career on the line. STRANGE FRUIT LYRICS Southern trees bear strange fruit Blood on the leaves Blood at the root Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze Strange fruit hanging […]

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