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INTRODUCTION

Southern trees bear strange fruit,
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze,
Strange fruit hanging from the popular trees……….

This is part of a poem written by Lewis Allen in 1939. It explains some of what I
will be stating in my report. Lynching is to execute without the process of law, especially
to hang by a mob. This was usually done because of hatred and prejudice. Lynching
occurred throughout the United States, it was not a sectional crime. Lynching found an
easy acceptance as the nation expanded, but it still didn’t make it right.

African American literature became broader in the later half of the twentieth
century, lynching, like slavery came as an actuality of race. African Americans were
hung because some whites thought that they were in the wrong doing. Many were
accused of rape only about one-third of the time, the most accusation was murder.
Hanging was the most......

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