Of Thee We Sing: Strange Fruit
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English - February 11, 2015 14:01 - 12 minutes - 14.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsCourses Education Arts Performing Arts Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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The lynching of black men in the American South was an all-too-familiar occurrence in the 1930s, even though it rarely made news. So when Billie Holiday had a hit record with the song Strange Fruit, it brought attention to this important issue in unusual ways.