The following images are taken from the website withoutsanctuaryorg There are almost 100 images of documented lynchings in America on this site These images are disturbing and call for your maturity while viewing ID: 461442
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withoutsanctuary.org
The following images are taken from the website withoutsanctuary.org
There are almost 100 images of documented
lynchings
in America on this site.
These images are disturbing, and call for your maturity while viewing.Slide2
The corpse of Clyde Johnson. August 3, 1935 . Yreka, California.Slide3
The lynching of nineteen-year-old Elias Clayton, nineteen-year-old Elmer Jackson, and twenty-year-old Isaac
McGhie
. June 15, 1920, Duluth, Minnesota.Slide4
The barefoot corpse of Laura Nelson. May 25, 1911, Okemah, Oklahoma.
The lynching of Laura Nelson and her son, several dozen onlookers.Slide5
The lynching of Joseph Richardson, damaged shoeshine stand. September 26, 1913, Leitchfield Kentucky.Slide6
The lynching of Rubin Stacy. July
19, 1935, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.Slide7
The burning corpse of William Brown.
September 28, 1919, Omaha, Nebraska. Slide8
“Strange Fruit” performed by Billy Holiday 1939.
Originally written as a poem by
Abel
Meeropol
, a New York City School teacher in the mid 1930s.
Southern trees bear a strange
fruit,
Blood
on the leaves and blood at the root
,
Black
body swinging in the
Southern
breeze, Strange
fruit hanging from
the
poplar
trees
.
Pastoral scene of the gallant South
,
The
bulging eyes and the twisted mouth
,
Scent
of magnolia sweet and fresh
,
And
the sudden smell of burning flesh
!
Here is a fruit for the crows to pluck
,
For
the rain to gather, for the wind to suck
,
For
the sun to rot, for a tree to drop
,
Here
is a strange and bitter crop.