The spellbinding, sometimes brutally evocative lyrics of "Strange Fruit" by Billie Holiday, describes lynchings in the American South.

Patrons would often walk out the moment she started singing ... she sang "Strange Fruit," Billie was reminded of her father's death. In her autobiography, Billie wrote that Clarence Holiday ...

In 1939, Billie Holiday rode the service elevator in ... Holiday stuck to her setlist, including singing“Strange Fruit,” a hauntingly emotional song against lynching with lyrics like ...

the director of Strange Fruit, a documentary about the thirties anti-lynching protest song. Written by Abel Meeropol, the somber elegy was claimed as her own by Billie Holiday, who spread its ...

Performance footage of Billie Holiday may admittedly be scant but this issue compiles into a single release song cuts from some of Holidays live filmed performances that are still existent Rare ...

Billie Holiday National Portrait Gallery Maya Angelou and Billie Holiday Holiday, Billie (Fagan, Eleanora) National Museum of American History Strange Fruit; Fine and Mellow National Museum of African ...

So Time magazine wrote in 1999 when they voted "Strange Fruit" the Song of the Century. The jazz singer referred to was Billie Holiday who came to be so closely associated with the song that she ...