Strange Fruit

  • Strange Fruit
    Strange Fruit
    By Billy McCoy

    The first witness called by the prosecutor was the investigating officer, Dale Martin. “I got a call on the afternoon of April 25,” Dale Martin explained, “Jeremiah Crosby hadn't opened his Fish market and I felt, well, concerned.

  • Strange Fruit: The Biography of a Song
    Strange Fruit: The Biography of a Song
    By David Margolick

    Strange Fruit not only chronicles the civil rights movement from the '30s on, it examines the lives of the beleaguered Billie Holiday and Abel Meeropol, the white Jewish schoolteacher and communist sympathizer who wrote the song that would ...

  • Strange Fruit: Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History
    Strange Fruit: Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History
    By Joel Christian Gill

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  • Strange Fruit
    Strange Fruit
    By Lillian Eugenia Smith

    Prelude and aftermath of a lynching in Georgia, depicting the South's unsolved racial problem.

  • Strange Fruit
    Strange Fruit
    By Mark Waid

    Includes a foreword by renowned film critic Elvis Mitchell. Collects the complete limited series and never-before-seen process art by J.G. Jones. "...a must read for anyone who is a fan of the medium." - Comic Book Resources

  • Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday and the Power of a Protest Song
    Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday and the Power of a Protest Song
    By Gary Golio

    Tells the story of how Billie Holiday and songwriter Abel Meeropol combined their talents to create "Strange Fruit," the iconic protest song that brought attention to lynching and racism in America.

  • Strange Fruit: Plays on Lynching by American Women
    Strange Fruit: Plays on Lynching by American Women
    By Kathy A. Perkins, Judith L. Stephens

    By focusing on women's unique view of lynching, this collection of plays reveals a social history of interracial cooperation between black and white women and an artistic tradition that continues to evolve through the work of African ...

  • Strange Fruit: Why Both Sides are Wrong in the Race Debate
    Strange Fruit: Why Both Sides are Wrong in the Race Debate
    By Kenan Malik

    The debate about race is back - and with a vengeance. In the past, scientific ideas of race reflected political ideas of inferiority and superiority, whereas today it reflects contemporary...

  • Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday, Cafe Society, And An Early Cry For Civil Rights
    Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday, Cafe Society, And An Early Cry For Civil Rights
    By David Margolick

    From four-time Pulitzer Prize nominee David Margolick, STRANGE FRUIT explores the story of the memorable civil rights ballad made famous by Billie Holiday in the late 1930s. The song's powerful,...

  • Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday, Café Society And An Early Cry For Civil Rights
    Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday, Café Society And An Early Cry For Civil Rights
    By David Margolick

    The story of the song that foretold a movement and the Lady who dared sing it.

  • Strange Fruit: A Ghost Story
    Strange Fruit: A Ghost Story
    By Rey Otis

    STRANGE FRUIT: A Ghost Story is a wild ride through the American Slave Trade to a modern day haunted house and is inspired by the protest poem by Abel Meeropol and the haunting musical versions by Nina Simone and Billie Holliday (and the ...

  • Strange Fruit
    By Mark Waid, Jeffrey G.. Jones

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  • Strange Fruit: Poems
    Strange Fruit: Poems
    By Helen Moffett

    Strange Fruit, by South Africa-based Helen Moffett, is a courageous debut with a remarkable range in theme and tone, from the nostalgic to the comedic and the bawdy, from the angry, the melancholic, the steadfast and the comforting.

  • Strange Fruit
    By Afdhel Aziz

    Strange Fruit

  • Strange Fruit: Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History
    Strange Fruit: Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History
    By Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Joel Christian Gill

    Tells nine stories of lesser-known African Americans using historical and cultural commentary.

  • Strange Fruit: A Novel
    Strange Fruit: A Novel
    By Michelle Janine Robinson

    In this frightening novel about the future, a series of catastrophic events not only cripples the world’s economy, but also ushers in the return of slavery.

  • Strange Fruit: Racism and Community Life in the Chesapeake-1850 to the Present
    Strange Fruit: Racism and Community Life in the Chesapeake-1850 to the Present
    By John Wennersten

    This book about Somerset County and the surrounding region traces the course of racism and society in a tidewater county in Maryland's Chesapeake Bay country from 1850 to the present.

  • Strange Fruit
    Strange Fruit
    By Kamau Brathwaite

    "In its title, Strange Fruit refers to the song of a lynching made famous by Billie Holiday and to the malign persecution that drove Kamau Brathwaite from his New York home to resettlement in his native Barbados.

  • Strange Fruit
    Strange Fruit
    By Caryl Phillips

    Powerful and compelling, Strange Fruit by Caryl Phillips (winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize) is the story of a family caught between two cultures, and the uncrossable no man's land that can come between parents and their children.

  • Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday and the Power of a Protest Song
    Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday and the Power of a Protest Song
    By Gary Golio

    The audience was completely silent the first time Billie Holiday performed a song called "Strange Fruit.