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Strange Fruit #249: How Watermelons Became A Racist Trope
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Posted Jun 29, 2018 at 10:04 pm.
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Historian Bill Black explains how watermelons became a racist trope. Plus a Carnegie Center exhibit tells the life story of Lucy Higgs Nichols, a formerly-enslaved woman who became a Civil War nurse.
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