“Strange Fruit” is a song written by Abel Meeropol and published in 1937. It protested American racism, particularly the lynching of black Americans. Such lynchings had reached a peak in the Southern United States at the turn of the centry, and the great majority of victims were black. The song’s lyrics are an extended metaphor linking a tree’s fruit with lynching victims.
Lynching
Lynching is a premeditated extrajudicial killing by a group. It is most often used to characterize informal public executions by a mob in order to punish an alleged transgressor, punish a convicted transgressor, or intimidate a group.
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