Strange Fruit

What is Strange Fruit?


1.

1930s anti-lynching poem written by Meeropol, put to music and made famous by Billie Holiday. Provides possible basis for the name of hip hop group "Strange fruit project.

"Southern trees bear a "strange fruit"

Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,

Black body swinging in the Southern breeze,

Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees."

Meeropol, 1939

See lynching, soul clap


81

Random Words:

1. Hit in the head with a thrown object. Originally a baseball term, in that context it means "hit in the head with a pitch." D..
1. Refeers to Rochester, New York. I like to go to Javas and complain about kids who go to The Spot, then I go skiing in June and eat garb..
1. 1. In football, to give the ball some wellyfrom 40 yards out in the hope you will score a brilliant equaliser and be carried off the pit..