"Southern trees bear a strange fruit/Blood on the leaves and blood at the root/Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze/Strange fruit hanging from the cottonwood trees"Billie Holiday didn't write "Strange Fruit," but her voice made it the song it is today. Holiday recorded it for the first time on this day in 1939, less than a month after she performed it for the first time at New York's famous Café Society club. Since then, it has become both a classic and a warning: a voice from history addressing the very real and extremely violent horrors of systemic racism.The song became an instant anthem, and Holiday carried the song, like the burden that racism imposes on those who see it, throughout her career, performing it in numerous circumstances and moods as she struggled with fame, racism, and a heroin addiction. (smithsonianmag.com)
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