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Episodes from "US History Since 1865," University of Toronto Scarborough (Winter 2011): 1 through 1 of 1

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  1. Southern Trees
    date August, 1930 to 1940map New York, New York, Marion, Indianatags Strange Fruit, Abel Meeropol, Billie Holiday, Southern Women, Lynching, Racism

    "Strange Fruit" is a haunting poem with verses that illustrate in vivid detail a dark facet of Southern life in the United States in the early-mid twentieth century. “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. Pastoral scene of the gallant South,The bulging eyes and the twisted...