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Kraven Seneca: Dance Company "Strange Fruit" @ BlakTino Festival 10.16.2009

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Uploaded by on Oct 19, 2009

Love.Angel.Sorrow, Pt. 1
Choreography and Staging- Amin Jai
Performers- Kiki Beckles, Noelé E. Phillips, and Natafa
Features Strange Fruit by, Nina Simone

For John Heith (1884), George Meadows (1889), Laura Nelson (1911), Jesse Washington (1916), Elias Clayton(1920), Elmer Jackson (1920), Isaac McGhie (1920), Leo Frank (Only known Jew to be lynched on American Soil), Michael Donald (1981), Mack Charles Parker(1959), Thomas Shipp(1930), Abram Smith(1930), Emmett Till (1955), James Cameron (The only known survivor of a lynching attempt) and the many of thousand who perished You will never be forgotten.

The lynching era encompasses roughly the five decades between the end of Reconstruction and the beginning of the Great Depression. During these years we may estimate that there were 2,018 separate incidents of lynching in which at least 2,462 African-American men, women and children met their deaths in the grasp of southern mobs, comprised mostly of whites. Although lynchings and mob killings occurred before 1880, notably during early Reconstruction when blacks were enfranchised, radical racism and mob violence peaked during the 1890s in a surge of terrorism that did not dissipate until well into the twentieth century.

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