![]() ![]() ![]() This inspired me to make an artwork.īlood on the leaves and blood at the root,īlack body swinging in the Southern breeze, I first read Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday, Cafe Society, and an Early Cry for Civil Rights by David Margolick, about the background story to Strange Fruit and Billie Holiday, and then heard the song. Lynched in the United States between 18. The song was most Were given the right to vote. Nearly 3,500 African Americans were It arose in the aftermath of the AmericanĬivil War, after slavery had been abolished and recently freed black men Lynching has been more frequent in times of social and economic tension,Īnd has often been used by the politically dominant population to ![]() Is about racism in the USA, and specifically about the lynching ofĪfrican Americans, which happened mostly in the Southern states. Strange Fruit was originally a poem and later a songīy the teacher Abel Meeropol, also known by the pen name Lewis Allan. ![]()
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