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- Strange Fruit - Wikipedia
"Strange Fruit" is a song written and composed by Abel Meeropol (under his pseudonym Lewis Allan) and recorded by Billie Holiday in 1939 The lyrics were drawn from a poem by Meeropol published in 1937
- Billie Holiday – Strange Fruit Lyrics - Genius
Originally written in 1937 by Abel Meeropol, “Strange Fruit” is a dark and profound song centered around the lynching of African Americans in the Southern United States during the Jim Crow Era
- The Tragic Story Behind Billie Holidays Strange Fruit - Biography
To great controversy, Lady Day introduced the world to the racially charged protest song "Strange Fruit " In the end, some believe it killed her In March 1939, a 23-year-old Billie Holiday
- Strange Fruit: The most shocking song of all time? - BBC
Billie Holiday recorded her iconic version of Strange Fruit on 20 April 1939 Eighty years on – in the first of our Songs that Made History series – Aida Amoako explores how a poem
- The story behind Billie Holiday’s ‘Strange Fruit’ - PBS
"Strange Fruit" was a controversial protest anthem sung by Billie Holiday in the 1930s which got her targeted by the U S government
- Strange Fruit | Lynching, Billie Holiday, Abel Meeropol, Facts . . .
Strange Fruit, searing anti-lynching protest song written by American author and songwriter Abel Meeropol and first recorded in 1939 by American jazz singer Billie Holiday Meeropol wrote the poem that became “Strange Fruit” after seeing a horrifying photograph of the 1930 lynching of two Black teenagers in Marion , Indiana
- Billie Holidays Strange Fruit And The Tragic Story Behind It
Written by Abel Meeropol and made famous by Billie Holiday in 1939, "Strange Fruit" protests the mass lynchings of Black people in the American South
- How Billie Holiday’s ‘Strange Fruit’ Confronted an Ugly . . . - HISTORY
The haunting lyrics of “Strange Fruit” paint a picture of rural America where political and psychological terror reigns over African American communities
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