Abel Meeropol
American author and songwriter
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“Strange Fruit”
- In Strange Fruit
…by American author and songwriter Abel Meeropol and first recorded in 1939 by American jazz singer Billie Holiday. Meeropol wrote the poem that became “Strange Fruit” after seeing a horrifying photograph of the 1930 lynching of two Black teenagers in Marion, Indiana. “Southern trees bear strange fruit,” the first line…
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