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.

Lewis Allan

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Topic

Lynching Black experience

Author

Lewis Allan

Source

Strange Fruit

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1937 1930s 20th century

Occupation

Songwriter

From

United States

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Allan, Lewis. "Strange Fruit." Performed by Billie Holiday. Commodore Records, 1939.

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What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.

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Topic
Decline of civilization

Author

Margaret Mitchell
Source
Gone with the Wind
Medium
Novel
Language
English
Time
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Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Mitchell, Margaret. Gone with the Wind. Macmillan Publishers, 1936, pt. 2, ch. 9.

Current Citation

Mitchell, Margaret. Gone with the Wind. Scribner, 2007, pt. 2, ch. 9.