"Strange Fruit" refers to the lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith in Marion, Indiana, on August 7, 1930, an event captured in an infamous photograph that inspired Abel Meeropol's poem and Billie Holiday's famous protest song. The poem and song use the euphemism "strange fruit" to describe the lynched bodies, and the photo became an iconic image of racial terror and violence in America. | Larry Mitchell
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