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Prejudice and Intolerance in America - African Americans
September 21, 2025·27 min·2 clips
The song 'Strange Fruit' describes 'Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze' as a 'strange and bitter crop' from lynching.
As heard by us
A clear account of anti-Black exclusion that keeps circling back to the present.
John Wilkinson uses African American history to show that prejudice in America did not stop at newcomers or radicals; it ran through law, work, housing, schooling, and ordinary life long after emancipation.
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You want the roots of anti-Black prejudice in America, without any varnish or polite detour.
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