Strange Fruit: How the lynching era permanently reshaped America

Eliminationism in America, Part 6: The post-Civil War fear of Black people engendered generations of violence and terrorism that scarred the nation's soul forever.

The lynching of Lige Daniels, Jasper, Texas, August 1920.

Part 6 of 12. [Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5.]

Southern trees bear a strange fruit

Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,

Black bodies 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 magnolias…