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in a New York suburb. After the ensuing uproar, both the company and the school district issued apologies.
After the Civil War, free Black Americans who owned or occupied even a small plot of land could raise and sell watermelons as a means of establishing financial independence. As a cash crop, the fruit was a symbol of Black freedom during the Reconstruction era. Southern white racists understood that, andWallace Fowler, a Black sharecropper in Spartanburg, S.C., was killed in 1871, months after accusing a white neighbor’s son of stealing some of his watermelons.
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