The fact is that we often think about lynchings in the South, and thousands took place in the South, Swarns said. But it's striking that Billie Holiday performed that song in New York, because racial violence happened in the North, too, and in New York.
It's important for Americans to know and understand that and reckon with that. I was born and raised in New York, and I had no idea.
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