jan 1, 1939 - Strange Fruit

Description:

Who: Billy Holiday sang this song and the record was produced by Commodore records because nobody else would.
What: Lynching song written by Abel Meeropol aka Lou Allen who was a Jewish school teacher and communist party activist.
Where: Cafe Society NY (Liberal interracial Jazz club)
When: 1939

(Basically this song was written 1 year after Coughlinism was started by an ordinary school teacher who was for communism...enter Coughlinism... who was protesting racism specifically lynching of African Americans.)