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"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 ...
"Strange Fruit: Anniversary of A Lynching", National Public Radio, August 2010, article text and 12 minute audio version; with larger print of original Beitler photo, showing women in the crowd around the hanging bodies
Among artistic works that grappled with lynching was the song "Strange Fruit", written as a poem by Abel Meeropol in 1939 and recorded by Billie Holiday. In part it goes: Southern trees bear a 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.
Today, “Strange Fruit” by Billie Holiday, “A Change is Gonna Come,” Sam Cooke and “What’s Going On,” Marvin Gaye remain relevant to Black America.
Lyrics to "Strange Fruit" a protest song about lynching, written by Abel Meeropol and recorded by Billie Holiday; Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture entry: Lynching in Arkansas; Smith, Tom. The Crescent City Lynchings: The Murder of Chief Hennessy, the New Orleans 'Mafia' Trials, and the Parish Prison Mob, crescentcitylynchings.com
From hanging stockings to caroling, these 10 holiday traditions have surprisingly bizarre origins 21 photos that show how Christmas is celebrated around the world 8 things that surprised me about ...
Meeropol was born in 1903 to Ukrainian-Jewish immigrants in the Bronx, New York. [2] [3] [4] He graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School in 1921 (his classmate Countee Cullen graduated in 1922); he earned a B.A. from City College of New York and an M.A. from Harvard University.
Roatta, 29, and Schlegel, 25, harnessed social media’s devotion to that which is strange and nostalgic (and possibly profane). They use it to market and sell the niche tropical fruit grown in ...