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Words: 1886 Pages: 6 4418In 1939 Billie Holiday performed “Strange Fruit”, a poem written by Abel Meeropol, to showcase the horror of lynching through the Jim Crow South (Margolick 1). With jarring lyrics of “Blood on the leaves and blood at the root, black bodies swinging in the southern breeze, strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees”, the performance told an honest truth about the quality of life for African Americans, and had a haunting relevance that still serves as an artistic motif of […]