Southern trees bear a strange fruit,
Strange Fruit, Billie Holiday
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze,
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.
This Map Shows Over a Century of Documented Lynchings in the United States
Mapping the history of racial terror
Between 1877 and 1950 more than 4,000 African-Americans were lynched by racist white mobs. This dark legacy is still affecting American politicspic.twitter.com/QPOqJRpeJx
— Alfons López Tena #FBPE (@alfonslopeztena) September 10, 2019
