“Whole families came together, mothers and fathers, bringing even their youngest children. It was the show of the countryside – a very popular show. Men joked loudly at the sight of the bleeding body … girls giggled as the flies fed on the blood that dripped from the Negro’s nose.” – a 1930 editorial in the Raleigh News and Observer

“Wash and make yourselves clean.
Take your evil deeds out of my sight;
stop doing wrong.
Learn to do right; seek justice.
Defend the oppressed.
Take up the cause of the fatherless;
plead the case of the widow.”
– Isaiah 1:16–17 (NIV)