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

Two years prior to that speech, a young Joan Baez led a crowd of 300,000 in singing the gospel song at the Lincoln ... once referred to Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit," a song she first performed in ...

Jazz singer Billie Holiday vs the US Government?! Her song Strange Fruit written by Abel Meeropol about the treatment of African Americans in the community is what started the whole altercation.

Two years prior to that speech, a young Joan Baez led a crowd of 300,000 in singing the gospel ... once referred to Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit," a song she first performed in early 1939 ...