HIST BC 2567x Lecture 2: American Women in the 20th Century Class 2
6 Oct 2016
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Strange fruit, billie holiday 1939: what is she singing about, lynching of african americans, written by abel meeropol, jewish man who was in the communist party. A form of domestic terrorism, political violence: public spectacle - planned lynchings announced in newspapers. Families showed up, including children, took photographs and took home mementos (and mementos often sold after the lynching: collection of photographs of lynchings in the united states. Cofounded a newspaper in memphis: 3 of her close friends in memphis were lynched, prompting her to become an activists, she began collecting data on lynchings, writing editorials denouncing the practice, 1893 - traveled to england. Filed lawsuit in 1884 that was initially successful and then reversed by. No one who reads the record as it is writtenwill for a minute conceive that southern white men have a very chivalrous regardrespectplaced in his power . This emerged out of victorian notions of womanhood.
