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Strange Fruit
Made famous by Billie Holiday's rendition, the song "Strange Fruit" is "a harrowing portrayal of the lynching of a black man in the American South." This site tells the story of the song, which was written by a Jewish teacher from the Bronx who later adopted the orphaned sons of executed spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Features a history of American protest music. Companion site to a PBS Independent Lens documentary.
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/strangefruit/
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