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Strange fruit: How Billie Holiday's performance of the anti-lynching song politicized Black consciousness
A Jewish teacher named Abel Meeropol published the text of "Strange Fruit" as a poem in 1937. White leftists adapted it to music, but Holiday—a 23-year-old Black jazz singer—made the song famous.
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Strange Fruit
"In this sad, shadowy song about lynching in the South, history's greatest jazz singer comes to terms with history itself". So Time magazine wrote in 1999 when they voted "Strange Fruit" the Song ...
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Decades After Billie Holiday's Death, 'Strange Fruit' Is Still a Searing Testament to Injustice – and of Faithful Solidarity With Suffering
The 44-year-old singer arrived after being turned ... Time magazine named her 1939 recording of "Strange Fruit"the song of the 20th century. "In this sad, shadowy song about lynching in the ...
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Strange Fruit
"It still amazes me how twelve lines can change the world," says Joel Katz, the director of Strange Fruit, a documentary about the thirties anti-lynching protest song. Written by Abel Meeropol ...