David Margolick 
Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday, Café Society And An Early Cry For Civil Rights [EPUB ebook] 

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The story of the song that foretold a movement and the Lady who dared sing it.
Billie Holiday’s signature tune, ‘Strange Fruit’, with its graphic and heart-wrenching portrayal of a lynching in the South, brought home the evils of racism as well as being an inspiring mark of resistance.
The song’s powerful, evocative lyrics – written by a Jewish communist schoolteacher – portray the lynching of a black man in the South. In 1939, its performance sparked controversy (and sometimes violence) wherever Billie Holiday went. Not until sixteen years later did Rosa Parks refuse to yield her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus. Yet ‘Strange Fruit’ lived on, and Margolick chronicles its effect on those who experienced it first-hand: musicians, artists, journalists, intellectuals, students, budding activists, even the waitresses and bartenders who worked the clubs.

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About the author

David Margolick is a contributing editor for Vanity Fair. Prior to that, he was the national legal affairs correspondent for the New York Times. He has written four books: Undue Influence: The Epic Battle for the Johnson & Johnson Fortune, At the Bar: Passions and Peccadillos of American Lawyers (a collection of his law columns for the New York Times), Strange Fruit and Beyond Glory: Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling, and a World on the Brink. He has been nominated four times for the Pulitzer Prize. He lives in New York City.

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● ISBN 9781782112525 ● File size 3.5 MB ● Age 22-99 years ● Publisher Canongate Books ● City Edinburgh ● Country GB ● Published 2013 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 2704338 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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