This will blow your socks off. Of course, everyone should be familiar with Billie Holiday’s version.

Beth & Joe - Strange Fruit OFFICIAL Music Video

The story behind the song…

“Strange Fruit” originated as a poem written by Abel Meeropol, a white, Jewish high school teacher from the Bronx and a member of the Communist Party, as a protest against lynchings of black African Americans. In the poem, Meeropol expressed his horror at what Lawrence Beitler’s photograph showed of the 1930 lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith in Marion, Indiana. He published the poem under the title “Bitter Fruit” in 1937 in The New York Teacher, a union magazine.Though Meeropol had asked others (notably Earl Robinson) to set his poems to music, he set “Strange Fruit” to music himself. His protest song gained a certain success in and around New York. Meeropol, his wife Anne, and black vocalist Laura Duncan performed it at Madison Square Garden. Meeropol chose to write as “Lewis Allan” in memory of the names of his two stillborn children. Later, he and his wife Anne adopted Julius and Ethel Rosenberg’s two sons, Michael and Robert, after their parents’ executions. Michael and Robert took the Meeropol surname.

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