print email comment close Strange Fruit URL: http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/strangefruit/ Description: 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. Publisher: Independent Television Service (ITVS) Extra Keywords Abel Meeropol Library of Congress Subject Headings: Holiday, Billie, 1915-1959 Holiday, Billie, 1915-1959 -- Strange Fruit Lynching Protest songs LII Database Information: Record 13020 created by Blaine Waterman on 06/02/2003 Last modification on 03/21/2004 Published: 06/02/2003   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/13020