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"Strange Fruit" is a song performed most famously by Billie Holiday, who first sang and recorded it in 1939. Written by teacher Abel Meeropol as a poem and published in 1937, it protested American racism, particularly the lynching of African Americans. Such lynchings had reached a peak in the South at the turn of the century, but continued there and in other regions of the United States. Meeropol set it to music and, with his wife and the singer Laura Duncan, performed it as a protest song in New York venues in the late 1930s, including Madison Square Garden. The song continues to be covered by numerous artists, and has inspired novels, other poems, and other creative works. In 1978, Holiday's version of the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Hall of Fame )〕 It was also included in the list of ''Songs of the Century'', by the Recording Industry of America and the National Endowment for the Arts. ==Poem and song==
"Strange Fruit" originated as a poem written by American writer, teacher and songwriter Abel Meeropol under his pseudonym Lewis Allan, as a protest against lynchings.〔David Margolick, ''Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday, Café Society, and an Early Cry for Civil Rights'' (Philadelphia: Running Press, 2000), pp. 25–27.〕 In the poem, Meeropol expressed his horror at lynchings, inspired by Lawrence Beitler's photograph of the 1930 lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith in Marion, Indiana.〔 He published the poem under the title "Bitter Fruit" in 1937 in ''The New York Teacher'', a union magazine.〔 Though Meeropol had asked others (notably Earl Robinson) to set his poems to music, he set "Strange Fruit" to music himself. His protest song gained a certain success in and around New York. Meeropol, his wife, and black vocalist Laura Duncan performed it at Madison Square Garden.〔Margolick, ''Strange Fruit'', pp. 36–37.〕 The lyrics are under copyright but have been republished in full in an academic journal, with permission.
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