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By Gary Golio,Charlotte Riley-Webb

The viewers used to be thoroughly silent the 1st time Billie vacation played a music known as "Strange Fruit." within the Nineteen Thirties, Billie used to be often called a performer of jazz and blues song, yet this track wasn't both of these issues. It used to be a tune approximately injustice, and it's going to switch her existence forever.

Discover how outsiders—Billie vacation, a tender black lady raised in poverty, and Abel Meeropol, the son of Jewish immigrants—combined their abilities to create a track that challenged racism and cleared the path for the Civil Rights movement.

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