Strange Fruit - Billie Holiday
Time Magazine referred to it as the very best song from the twentieth century. It had been initially a poem compiled by a whitened Jewish school teacher known as Abel Meeropol who had been a Communist Party member and originated from the Bronx. He was disgusted in the lynchings of African People in America within the deep south of the USA and also the poem was his method of indicating his extreme antipathy towards that crime. He set the poem to music also it grew to become something of the protest song.
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Time Magazine referred to it as the very best song from the twentieth century. It had been initially a poem compiled by a whitened Jewish school teacher known as Abel Meeropol who had been a Communist Party member and originated from the Bronx. He was disgusted in the lynchings of African People in America within the deep south of the USA and also the poem was his method of indicating his extreme antipathy towards that crime. He set the poem to music also it grew to become something of the protest song.