Strange Fruit and Spanish Moss

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• Strange Fruit and Spanish Moss

  This blog started as an attempt to find a lynching for every day of the year. It is a grim part of United States history that I fear too many find easy to shrug away. After two years, I am now focusin...

• Strange Fruit and Spanish Moss: Time for a Break

  I have spent two years and three months writing this blog. In that time I have covered the lynchings of 1, 009 persons, and posted 69 a...

• Strange Fruit and Spanish Moss: April 2018

  PHILIP COOK, Secretary of State. Description—Sam Hose is of a yellow color, five and one-half feet high, one or two front teeth out and carries his head a little to one side. Is 21 or 22 years old. W...

• Strange Fruit and Spanish Moss: April 18, 1932: Richard Read

  Today we learn about a lynching in Kansas, but first we will read about the crime. The article comes to us from The Emporia Gazette (Emporia...

• Strange Fruit and Spanish Moss: May 2014

  Thank you for stopping by my blog. This blog is in remembrance of the people lynched during a tumultuous period in the United States. Since this blog is about lynchings, you should expect to read abou...

• Strange Fruit and Spanish Moss: Strange Fruit

  Southern trees bear a strange fruit Blood on the leaves and blood at the root, Black body swinging in the Southern breeze, Strange fruit ...