“Strange Fruit”
“Strange Fruit” This anti-lynching poem was written by Abel Meeropol, a teacher, songwriter, and member of the American Communist Party He published it in a union publication in 1937 and then set it to music It was most famously performed by Billy Holiday, who first sang “Strange Fruit” in 1939
Strange Fruit
"Strange Fruit" is a poem written by Abel Meeropol, a white, Jewish high school teacher from the Bronx and a member of the Communist Party, as a protest against lynchings He sometimes published under the pen name Lewis Allan, after two sons who were stillborn
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Abel Meeropol Billie Holiday Written as an antilynching song the idea of “strange fruit” is a haunting one “Southern trees” refers to the American South, where at the time of writing lynching was still prevalent One could take “strange fruit” to mean the black
“Strange Fruit”—Billie Holiday (1939)
Billie Holiday Original label Abel Meeropol Considering the vivid images and sustained metaphor of the song “Strange Fruit,” it shouldn’t be surprising that it began as a poem It was written by Abel Meeropol (1903-1986), a teacher, poet and songwriter, who published under the name Lewis Allan
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May 09, 2018 · Strange Fruit Bitter Fruit was written by Abel Meeropol, a Jewish schoolteacher, after seeing a postcard from Marion, Indiana bearing a photograph of two young black men, Thomas Shipp and Abraham Smith (August 7,1930) The photographer was Lawrence Beitler
Billie Holiday, “Strange Fruit” (1939)
Billie Holiday, “Strange Fruit” (1939) “Strange Fruit” was written by Abel Meeropol, a white English teacher from New York City, as a protest against the horrors of lynching Lynching was a practice that involved mob-style execution without trial, most often by hanging, and almost exclusively of African Ameri-cans
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Strange Fruit was originally a poem by Shahidai, may have popularized Strange Fruit and turned it into a work of art, but it was a Jewish communist teacher and civil rights activist from the Bronx, Abel Meeropol, who wrote it, first as a poem and then as a song
Billie Holiday, “Strange Fruit”
Billie Holiday, “Strange Fruit” Source: William P Gottlieb “Strange Fruit” was written by Abel Meeropol, a white English teacher from New York City, as a protest against the horrors of lynching Lynching was a practice that involved mob-style execution without trial, most often by hanging, and most often of African Americans
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The iconic anti-lynching song “Strange Fruit”, written by Abel Meeropol and first performed by Billie Holiday in 1939, emerged during what is known as the Jim Crow era in US history As a testimony to the song’s ability to boldly represent this horrific past, Time Magazine
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Strange Fruit
by Lewis Allen (pseudonym)Southern trees bear strange fruit,
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,
Black bodies swinging in the Southern breeze,
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.
Pastoral scene of the gallant South,
The bulging eyes and twisted mouth,
The scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh,
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh.
Here is a fruit for the crows to pluck,
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck,
For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop,
Here is a strange and bitter crop.
"Strange Fruit" is a song performed most famously by Billie Holiday, who first sang and recorded it in 1939.
Written by the teacher Abel Meeropol as a poem, it exposed American racism, particularly the lynching of
African Americans. Such lynchings had occurred chiefly in the South but also in other regions of the United
States. Meeropol set it to music and with his wife and the singer Laura Duncan, performed it as a protest song in
New York venues, including Madison Square Garden.
The song has been covered by artists, as well as inspiring novels, other poems and other creative works. In 1978
Holiday's version of the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. It was also included in the list of
Songs of the Century, by the Recording Industry of America and the National Endowment for the Arts."Strange Fruit" is a poem written by Abel Meeropol, a white, Jewish high school teacher from the Bronx and a
member of the Communist Party, as a protest against lynchings. He sometimes published under the pen name
Lewis Allan, after two sons who were stillborn.
The lyrics are under copyright but have been republished in full in an academic journal, with permission. In the
poem, Meeropol expressed his horror at lynchings. He had seen Lawrence Beitler's photograph of the 1930
lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith in Marion, Indiana. He published the poem under the title "Bitter
Fruit" in 1937 in The New York Teacher, a union magazine. Though Meeropol had often asked others (notably
Earl Robinson) to set his poems to music, he set "Strange Fruit" to music himself and the piece gained a certain
success as a protest song in and around New York. Meeropol, his wife, and black vocalist Laura Duncan
performed it at Madison Square Garden.Barney Josephson, the founder of Cafe Society in Greenwich Village, New York's first integrated nightclub,
heard the song and introduced it to Billie Holiday. Other reports say that Robert Gordon, who was directing
Billie Holiday's show at Cafe Society, heard the song at Madison Square Garden and introduced it to her.
Holiday first performed the song at Cafe Society in 1939. She said that singing it made her fearful of retaliation
but, because its imagery reminded her of her father, she continued to sing the piece making it a regular part of
her live performances. Because of the poignancy of the song, Josephson drew up some rules: Holiday would
The photograph that was cited by the songwriter
as the inspiration for the song: Thomas Shipp andAbram Smith, August 7, 1930.
close with it; the waiters would stop all service in advance; the room would be in darkness except for a spotlight
on Holiday's face; and there would be no encore. During the musical introduction, Holiday would stand with her
eyes closed, as if she were evoking a prayer.Holiday approached her recording label, Columbia, about the song, but the company feared reaction by record
retailers in the South, as well as negative reaction from affiliates of its co-owned radio network, CBS. Even
John Hammond, Holiday's producer, refused so she turned to friend Milt Gabler, whose Commodore labelproduced alternative jazz. Holiday sang "Strange Fruit" for him a cappella, and moved him to tears. Columbia
allowed Holiday a one-session release from her contract in order to record it and Frankie Newton's eight-piece
Cafe Society Band was used for the session. Because he was worried that the song was too short, Gabler asked
pianist Sonny White to improvise an introduction so that Holiday only starts singing after 70 seconds. Gabler
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