Strange Fruit: The Biography of a Song by Hilton Als, David Margolick

Strange Fruit: The Biography of a Song

Hilton Als, David Margolick

168 pages 2000

9 editions

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Recorded by jazz legend Billie Holiday in 1939, "Strange Fruit" is considered to be the first significant song of the civil rights movement and the first direct musical assault upon racial lynchings in the South. Originally sung in New York's Cafe...

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