Strange Fruit Wikipedia ~ Strange Fruit is a song recorded by Billie Holiday in 1939 written by Abel Meeropol and published in 1937 It protests the lynching of Black Americans with lyrics that compare the victims to the fruit of lynchings had reached a peak in the Southern United States at the turn of the 20th century and the great majority of victims were black

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Billie Holiday – Strange Fruit Lyrics Genius Lyrics ~ In the lyrics black victims are portrayed as “strange fruit” as they hang from trees rotting in the sun blowing in the wind and becoming food for crows upon being burned It was a protest

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Strange Fruit Throughline NPR ~ Billie Holiday helped shape American popular music with her voice and unique style But her legacy extends way beyond music with one song in particular — Strange Fruit The song paints

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Strange Fruit Billie Holiday Signature Song The ~ “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

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