The story behind the song "Strange Fruit" is well-known. Shocked by a postcard bearing a photograph of the lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abraham Smith in Marion, Ind., Bronx schoolteacher Abel Meeropol ...
A photographer captured Billie Holiday singing Strange Fruit as she recorded the song in 1939 First recorded in 1939, the protest song Strange Fruit came to symbolise the brutality and racism of the ...