Strange Fruit

This film won 4th place at the 2006 National History Day. It is the story of Billie Holiday and Abel Meeropol in their quest to shed light on racial injustice, especially lynching, in America. A film directed and produced by Daniel Weidlein. Visit dewjazz.webs.com

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Film & Animation

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• music
• jazz
• billie
• holiday
• abel
• meeropol
• strange
• fruit
• swing
• racial
• lynching
• documentary
• national
• history
• day

[iraqidolphin]

Billie sang it. Abel wrote it. And she adopted two boys who's parents were executed.

[deworama]

@iraqidolphin Almost right there. It was Abel that adopted the two boys, the sons of the famous Julius and Ethel Rosenberg in fact.

[lilypad145]

May I use this in my public school classroom?

[deworama]

@lilypad145 please do! Just give credit where credit is due :)

[lacotadebrace]

Ahhhh conservative southerners......no southern democrates......baby..........­....at least get it straight

[deworama]

I appreciate your comments, but the information is accurate—in the late 1800s and early 1900s, the Southern Conservatives responsible for lynch law and Jim Crow laws were in fact Democrats...this is a reference to social conservatism, not necessarily political conservatism, in fact the republicans of the time were much more socially liberal

[Consoleposterboy]

Just another reminder that we need to continue to sideline and render impotent these 'socially conservative' scum, who have ALWAYS held society back - they have held it back from racial equality, gender equality and now equality between folks of different sexual orientation.

Proud to be a liberal.

[Lyiad]

Not all white people are racist.

i don't look down on you at all...

This 'genteel southern' tradition sickens me, I'd cripple, maim, and BRAKE those lynchers for the lives they took, and the shame they forced on people of white skin..

Goddamn the Klan.. Damn them all.

[BioJayCe]

Thanks for makin this, I wanted to learn more about this song and it's history. Now I don't have to read the entire Wikipedia or something.

[bajistayeconomista]

This brought tears to my eyes. I always loved the song in Marcu Miller version and never knew what was it about. You can feel the pain in each note, each chord. It amazes me how the sentiment is trasmitted in such a powerful way.

[spinalcrackerbox]

@TheChoctawNative With that attitude you may be reborn as one of them.

[organeyes11]

@deworama

Where is your credit to the information, the film, the photographers?

[TheChoctawNative]

If you google "lynching" you will see a frenzy of white people gathering around, possessed by demons, lynching an innocent black man. What comes around goes around. Thank you Jesus for the disappearance of the white race.

[crazymabey]

/watch?v=Uv8d77JN_7o&feature=r­elated

for the song

[SLACKER614]

american was founded on genocide of native peoples and slavery of african peoples..nothing has changed..the new demons are immigrants, gays and muslims...the american government needs to be dismantled and capitalism destroyed, before they destroy the planet..

[AutAgereAutMori]

Don't black people ever get tired of being associated with getting their existential ass kicked all the time?In the era of gangster rap it's fun for some people(a lot of people) to see "big bucks"swinging from the trees.This is what a lot of Blacks don't get.You think people sympathize with you but really they're secretly getting a hard on.You need to move on.Start talking about the blacks killing each other now.I bet statistcally it was safer for blacks 70 years ago than it is now. GOT REALITY?