1 jan 1939 ano - Strange Fruit
Descrição:
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.)
Adicionado na linha do tempo:
American Jewish History Part II
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