Cruelty In The Song 'Strange Fruit' By Billy Holiday
"Strange Fruit" (Song) by Billy Holiday.
The song "Strange Fruit" was first written as a poem by Abel Meerpol, a white high school teacher, who was also a Jew and a member of an American Communists Party. The poem exposes the problem of American racism, in particular, the lynching of Afro-Americans. The episodes of cruelty towards people with black skin occurred mostly in the South of US, but the problem was not unknown to other regions as well. Lynching had reached its highest point in the 1930s with about 4000 episodes estimated till 1940, mostly in the South and the majority of the victims were black.
Abel Meerpol hated the cruelty towards black people and was struck (Meetrol himself uses the word "haunted") by a picture of Thomas Shipp
The song "Strange Fruit" was first written as a poem by Abel Meerpol, a white high school teacher, who was also a Jew and a member of an American Communists Party. The poem exposes the problem of American racism, in particular, the lynching of Afro-Americans. The episodes of cruelty towards people with black skin occurred mostly in the South of US, but the problem was not unknown to other regions as well. Lynching had reached its highest point in the 1930s with about 4000 episodes estimated till 1940, mostly in the South and the majority of the victims were black.
Abel Meerpol hated the cruelty towards black people and was struck (Meetrol himself uses the word "haunted") by a picture of Thomas Shipp