1944 LILLIAN SMITH. Strange Fruit. Banned Book on Interracial Marriage - Signed! IrvingiteA fascinating work detailing an interracial relationship told explicitly as a pre Civil rights critique of ongoing racism under Jim Crow. In it, she uses the ultimate union of races in a romantic context as a paradigmatic rejection of all segregation, separate but equal policies, etc,. the title was derived from the title of the Billie Holiday 1939 song, Strange Fruit. The strange fruit growing on Southern trees was of course a reference to ongoing
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considering the nature of God and His end in the giving forth His commands
as bigotry is the parent of persecution to the sceptics
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Both Harrison and Whitfield are referred to multiple times in Minutes of the Methodist Conferences: from the first
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urging the nation to obey God rather than the Government and to disobey the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
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