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as we continue our coverage of wilmington, join us as we take you on a literary walking tour of the city. i wanted to put together the literary tour not owing to shine a light and what s happening now but what our history includes. i thin there s also a piece of this which is that there is still association and a lot of peoples minds that the south is not a place of intellectual advancement and success and accomplishment. and having lived here my whole life i have certainly found that that is not the case, and i am continually startled and frustrated by the number of people come to visit the bookstore and are stunned that i seek cash but i speak in complete census and a read. i m glad to know that you think that my or carl sandburg couldn t read or write or that thomas wilkes couldn t read or write, were all writers of north carolina. and so i really come it frustrated me a lot and i really wanted an opportunity to share our rich literary heritage with people. the first ....
so that website address is a place that you can download everything she described and finally, the book obviously. that s what i ve given you is everywhere not everywhere but most places you can find the scripts themselves that my book is based on if you were interested enough this is where you can find it so this is literally resource, don t be distracted during the lecture. so that is bad. and finallthat.and finally i aly that i m very grateful that you bothered to show up. i m very proud of this work and i love to be able to share it to the fact you are here allows me to share it so i have a gift for everyone before we leave. if i somehow seem to be forgetting that during the q-and-a reminded me very i have a small gift for the fact that you bothered to show up. so thank you very much. southern trees bear a strange fruit blood at the root, black bodies swinging in the southern breeze, strange fruit hanging from the trees. i trust that you recognize these lyrics tha ....
so thank you. thank you so much. southern trees bear strange fruit. blood on the leaves, blood at the root. black bodies swinging in the southern breeze. strange fruit hanging from the trees. i trust that you recognize these lyrics which describe the hanging bodies of lynching victims. billie holliday made these words famous with the 1939 recording of lewis alan s ballad, and since then versions of the song have come from artists ranging from ub40 to dwayne wade gens. as a result, generations of americans have come to regard the hanging bodies as the best representation of mob destruction. these lyrics, therefore, help explain why gruesome images of lynching victims have become so influential. in late 1999, nearly 100 photographs of mob victims reentered circulation via museum exhibitions and a book of photography called without sanctuary. it s strange for its lyrics made us imagine the hanging body, the photographs challenged us to face it you re ....
he leaves to check on a friend his life has been threatened, and while he s away, the mob drags that friend passed the house. liza here s the victim called out to his mother. shocked and distraught, liza goes into labor before john returns. so having killed one man and restraint another, the mob takes me leaders from both families. at liza soon confirms that racial violence jeopardizes future generations. when her child is born a boy she strangles him to death. at the end of the blood she is in the days and she insist her baby is safe and safe from the lynching. safe. liza s disturbing declaration illustrates the most important distinction between degeneration and the generation. while the latter in the kate that pathology within the black family degeneration and lynching, points to the degeneracy of the mob. blacks had already proven their ability to build successful homes, so if african-americans characters do not reproduce, or if they resist by terminating young li ....