Strange Fruit
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title:
Strange Fruit
text:
"Strange Fruit" is a song written and composed by Abel Meeropol and recorded by Billie Holiday in 1939. The lyrics were drawn from a poem by Meeropol published in 1937. The song protests the lynching of Black Americans with lyrics that compare the victims to the fruit of trees. Such 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. The song has been called "a declaration" and "the beginning of the civil rights
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description:
1939 song made famous by Billie Holiday
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Fruit
date created:
2004-04-03T12:32:33Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T23:10:18Z
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