Lynching in the United States (1877-1968)

Southern trees bear a strange fruit, 
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root, 
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze, 
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.

Strange Fruit, written by Abel Meeropol.

Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (1865)

“This nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom.” President Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address (1863)