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Yesterday, I listened to the Jazz song “Strange Fruit” from Billie Holiday and I was intrigued. What was this song about? I learned that the song is based on the poem “Bitter Fruit” written in 1937 by Abel Meeropol. It describes the lynching that took place, primarily in the South of the USA, between theMeer lezen over “Strange Fruit / Vreemde Vruchten”