90% of these assassinations were committed in the Southern States. According to the association Equal Justice Initiative 1, more than 4000 Blacks were lynched in the United States between 18.
It is right after that the lynching photos of Thomas Shipp (18 years old) and Abram Smith (19 years old), accused of rape, that he, traumatised, take up his pen to finally denounce these cruel practices. Right in the middle of the racial segregation in the United States, in 1937, the communist poet and professor, Abel Meeropol, decided to write against the violence committed against the black American population, and mainly on the subjects of lynching. “Strange Fruit” is the very first famous protest song in the United States. In 1939, for the first time, Billie Holiday performed “Strange Fruit” on the stage of Café Society in New York, a song that forever marks the American musical history of the 20th century.
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