Genealogy Projects tagged with hate crimes on the Geni Family Tree

Lynched

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. From About Lynching by Robert L. Zangrando Lynching is the practice whereby a mob--usually several dozen or several hundred persons--takes the law into its own hands in order to injure and kill a person accused of so...