Search results for #StrangeFruit
As OF RIGHT NOW HE is nothing but a stain on America Morality. After a few of his Trials we WILL KNOW IF he is innocent or guilty. Period Point Blank. Let the process work. VERY unlike the way White America has played the game with many of the underserved! Got #StrangeFruit?
As OF RIGHT NOW HE is nothing but a stain on America Morality. After a few of his Trials we WILL KNOW IF he is innocent or guilty. Period Point Blank. Let the process work. VERY unlike the way White America has played the game with many of the underserved! Got #StrangeFruit? https://t.co/X4ve9A4ygP
Maybe @taylorswift13 or @Beyonce could take up her torch? #StrangeFruit
Maybe @taylorswift13 or @Beyonce could take up her torch? #StrangeFruit
Thread on Billie Holliday & "#StrangeFruit." 'Song' written by Abel Meeropol, who later adopted the #Rosenberg boys.
Thread on Billie Holliday & "#StrangeFruit." 'Song' written by Abel Meeropol, who later adopted the #Rosenberg boys.
'Strange Fruit' recorded this day in 1939. #TodayInBlackHistory #StrangeFruit
'Strange Fruit' recorded this day in 1939. #TodayInBlackHistory #StrangeFruit
Sing Billie! #BillieHoliday #StrangeFruit
One of the first songs to call out the murderous brutality suffered by African Americans in the #JimCrowSouth, the painful & poetic #StrangeFruit was recorded by #BillieHoliday OTD in 1939. A small jazz label, Commodore, recorded it after her label, Columbia Records, refused to.
HEY LOCO FANS - Billie Holiday records "Strange Fruit" on this day in 1939. It was written and composed by Abel Meeropol based on a poem Meeropol published in 1937. #BLM #BlackLivesMatter #Respect #EqualRights #Equality #CivilRights #NAACP #BillieHoliday #StrangeFruit #Lynching
#StrangeFruit Facts: Written by Abel Meeropol in 1937, the poem was about lynching and compared its victims to fruit trees. 3/7
#OTD In History 1939 April 20: #BillieHoliday Recorded #StrangeFruit Lyrics: "Southern trees bear strange fruit Blood on the leaves and blood at the root Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees" 1/7
#BillieHoliday refused to stop singing #StrangeFruit because the song made her think of her father who died at age 39 after being denied medical treatment at a Texas “whites only” hospital. 5/7
The extremely racist Commissioner for the Federal Bureau of Narcotics claimed that “narcotics made black people forget their place in the fabric of American society,” ordered #BillieHoliday to stop singing #StrangeFruit in public. 4/7
When #BillieHoliday was hospitalized for her heroin addiction, the racist Commissioner for the Federal Bureau of Narcotics arrested her, handcuffed her to a hospital bed & prevented the hospital staff from giving her the methadone and she was dead within days. #StrangeFruit 7/7
#StrangeFruit Context: As a song it was recorded by #BillieHoliday in 1939. Many believe the song is what got her killed. 2/7
The Commissioner for the Federal Bureau of Narcotics used #BillieHoliday's heroin addiction against her. She spent 18 months in prison, was denied a cabaret performer’s license after she got out and eventually started using again. #StrangeFruit 6/7