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Behind âStrange Fruit,â Billie Holidayâs Anti-Lynching Anthem
It helped make Holiday a star, but it was written by Abel Meeropol, a teacher in the Bronx. An Oscar nomination and a year of protests against racism have kept it in the conversation.
Billie Holiday at a recording session in 1939. The film âThe United States vs. Billie Holidayâ chronicles the governmentâs efforts to suppress the song âStrange Fruit.âCredit.Charles Peterson/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
April 25, 2021, 6:51 p.m. ET
When Billie Holiday first performed âStrange Fruitâ in 1939, the song was so bold for the time that she could sing it only in certain places where it was safe to do so.