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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 Lyrics
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
- Billie Holiday-Strange fruit- HD - YouTube
lyrics Strange Fruit Southern trees bear strange fruit Blood on the leaves and blood at the root Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees
- The Tragic Story Behind Billie Holidays Strange Fruit
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
- 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 | Meaning, Lyrics, Poem, Lynching, Billie Holiday, Abel . . .
“Strange Fruit” is a searing anti-lynching protest song written by Abel Meeropol and first recorded in 1939 by Billie Holiday
- 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
- Strange Fruit: The most shocking song of all time? - BBC
Eighty years on – in the first of our Songs that Made History series – Aida Amoako explores how a poem about lynching became a timeless call to action “Can you imagine never having heard this song
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