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Holiday 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. 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 a tree to drop. Complete bbc recordings by strange fruit uk 20020909. One side denies that the concept of race makes scientific sense. It condemned american racism, particularly the lynching of african americans that had occurred chiefly in the south but also in all regions of the united states. Strange fruit is more than the story of the hauntingly evocative song from the 1930s that became the anthem of the antilynching movement. Holiday strange fruit sheet music fake book pdfinteractive.
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