Abel Meeropol wrote the anti-lynching poem Strange Fruit (1937), - TopicsExpress



          

Abel Meeropol wrote the anti-lynching poem Strange Fruit (1937), which was first published in the Marxist publication The New Masses and was subsequently set to music. The songs best known recordings and performances were by Billie Holiday and Josh White. Billie Holiday claimed in Lady Sings the Blues, that she co-wrote the music to the song with Meeropol and Sonny White, but in fact, Meeropol was the sole writer of both the lyrics and melody.
Posted on: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 16:26:48 +0000

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