Dr. W.E.B. DuBois
and others
organized
a silent parade
down Fifth Avenue
in New York City
against the
lynching of
negroes
and
segregationist
Jim Crow laws.
There had been
nearly 3,000
documented cases
of hangings and other
mob violence against
black Americans
since the
Reconstruction period
following
the Civil War.
Strange Fruit, the song about lynching, and the film
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