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Strange Fruit

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NR,57min
Genres:
Documentary,Musical
Released:
January 1, 2002
Director:
Joel Katz
Starring:
Abel Meerpol, Billie Holiday, Amiri Baraka  ...more
Synopsis: Made famous by singer Billie Holiday in an unforgettable 1939 recording, the haunting anti-lynching anthem "Strange Fruit" was not, as many believe, written by an African-American. Rather, it grew out of poem penned by a Jewish schoolteacher from the Bronx, Abel Meeropol. Outraged by the shabby and often brutal treatment of black citizens in the Land of the Free and Home of the Brave, Meeropol gravitated to the burgeoning civil rights movement of the 1930s, where he also found a nurturing home for ... Full Synopsis
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Dan Friedman, AMG Review
If half the battle of making a good documentary is in the subject matter, Strange Fruit is halfway home before it rolls a second of footage. The song "Strange Fruit," made famous by Billie Holiday in the 1950s, was written by Bronx high school teacher Abel Meeropol in 1937 as a poem about the lynching of a black man in the South. Since then it has been recorded by dozens of artists as diverse as Sting, ... Full Review
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