by Montgomery Jones
For this month’s Women’s History Year, I talked about Billie Holiday and the bravery she displayed by singing Strange Fruit. Originally a poem written by Abel Meeropol, Strange Fruit is an eerie song about two men who were publicly lynched. This song ruffled feathers, but Ms. Holiday sang it anyway.
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