Multimedia Collection
Strange Fruit
DVD
57 min
2002
HV6457 .S773 2002 DVD
"Southern trees bear a strange fruit. Blood on the leaves and blood at the root."
These are the opening words to one of the world's most famous protest songs. Its music and lyrics were written by Abel Meeropol (pen name Lewis Allan), a Bronx public school teacher but are often attributed to Billie Holiday, who first sang Strange Fruit in 1939 at Barney Josephson's Cafe Society, New York's first integrated nightclub. Joel Katz's compelling history of this anti-lynching song explores the alliance between American Jews and African-Americans in the struggle for civil rights.
Distributed by California Newsreel (www.newsreel.org).
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