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The image inspired Abel Meeropol to write the poem Strange Fruit which was later turned into a song that blues singer Billie Holiday sang around the world. Anniversary of A Lynching National Public Radio includes larger version of original Beitler photo showing women in the crowd around the hanging bodies.
She gave a startling most dramatic and effective interpretation which could jolt an audience out of its complacency anywhere Meeropol who was sitting in the crowd raved.
Lynching strange fruit. Strange Fruit Strange Fruit a 1937 song composed by Abel Meeropol a Jewish schoolteacher from New York inspired by the photograph of a lynching in Marion Indiana. It reminds me of how Pop died she said of the song in her autobiography. A review in Time Magazine referred to the song as a.
Anti-lynching campaigners sent Strange Fruit to congressmen to encourage them to propose a viable anti-lynching bill. EJI believes that before we heal the wounds from our present we must face our past. Notes on the photo from Allens Without Sanctuary includes a quote from Camerons A.
James Allen Without Sanctuary. Because of the painful memories it conjured Holiday didnt enjoy performing Strange Fruit but knew she had to. Meeropol said that the photograph haunted me for days.
Though Strange Fruit never uses the word lynching its meaning didnt escape anyone in the audience. Twenty-five years later the 1955 photos of Emmett Tills maimed body became a new generations cultural touchstone. Photographs and Postcards of Lynching in America his website related to his published book of same name.
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