In my 8th grade social studies class,
"lynching"
was a vocabulary word.
We studied the Native Americans as if they were fictional characters,
and learned that obliterating Hiroshima was "controversial."
Three weeks seemed good enough for 400 years.
We learned that strange fruit miraculously fell as far from the tree as possible, and stopped growing in the 1960's. They cut down all of the trees since then, and you can only find the seeds anymore in a few small towns in the south.
It's illegal now, you know, like marijuana.