The Great Migration: KKK
Document #3- Strange Fruit (lines 1-4) "Southern trees bear strange fruit, blood on the leaves and blood at the root, black bodies swinging in the southern breeze, strange fruit hanging from the poplar tree"
This quote deals with the return to normalcy idea because the KKK is coming back, and they're stronger than ever. The poem, 'Strange Fruit' is about the KKK lynching African Americans by hanging them from trees, burning their bodies, and waiting for their body to rot away in the soil with the help of crows picking at them. In the south, they (the KKK) was the biggest and scariest group of people. The KKK is commonly known for hanging people (specifically ones that go against their group). When they disappeared all of a sudden, everyone was starting to get at ease, but in the 1920's, they came back: killing people and targeting certain areas or groups, stronger than ever.