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Strange Fruit. " 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.
- April 20, 1939
- "Fine and Mellow"
- 1939
Aug 25, 2020 · In March 1939, a 23-year-old Billie Holiday walked up to the mic at West 4th's Cafe Society in New York City to sing her final song of the night. Per her request, the waiters stopped serving and ...
Sep 5, 2012 · One of Billie Holiday's most iconic songs is "Strange Fruit," a haunting protest against the inhumanity of racism. Many people know that the man who wrote the song was inspired by a photograph of ...
- Elizabeth Blair
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Jul 2, 2021 · Abel Meeropol was an English teacher in New York City in the 1930s who, purportedly upon seeing a photograph of two black men lynched in Indiana, wrote a poem about it called “Strange Fruit ...
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Song Notes. “Strange Fruit” is a song performed most famously by Billie Holiday, who first sang and recorded it in 1939. Written by a white, Jewish high school teacher from the Bronx and a member of the Communist Party, Abel Meeropol wrote it as a protest poem, exposing American racism, particularly the lynching of African Americans.
Nov 28, 2021 · The Meaning Behind ‘Strange Fruit,’ Billie Holiday’s Tragic Ballad. First made famous by Holiday in 1939, "Strange Fruit" protested the mass lynchings of Black people across the American South. Pinterest The meaning behind “Strange Fruit” made it so controversial that many hounded Billie Holiday to stop singing it.
Dec 30, 2012 · NPR's Elizabeth Blair has the story of Abel Meeropol, a man with two extraordinary life stories. He wrote the song "Strange Fruit" about lynching that became one of the most important songs of the ...
