Download Strange Fruit PDF/eBook
By:Gary Golio
Published on 2017-02-01 by Millbrook Press
ISBN 9781512438635
Synopsis
The audience was completely silent the first time Billie Holiday performed a song called |Strange Fruit.| In the 1930s, Billie was known as a performer of jazz and blues music, but this song wasn't either of those things. It was a song about injustice, and it would change her life forever. Discover how two outsidersBillie Holiday, a young black woman raised in poverty, and Abel Meeropol, the son of Jewish immigrantscombined their talents to create a song that challenged racism and paved the way for the Civil Rights movement.
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