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if billie hadn’t persisted, 'strange fruit' may not have been released until much later than 1939. columbia refused, at first (‘they won’t buy it in the south’), to let billie include it even though she’d made the song a central & permanent part of her repertoire during her tenure at cafe society. it remains one of the most gripping, haunting indictments of racism across all artistic disciplines.
#strangeFruit #music #jazz #racism #billieHoliday #illustration

Today In Labor History April 7, 1915: Jazz legend, Billie Holiday, was born. She was one of the first to sing Abel Meeropol’s, “Strange Fruit,” and performed the most well-known version of the anti-lynching song. Soon after her first public performance of the song, in 1939, the new Federal Bureau of Narcotics started gunning for her. Harry Anslinger, who was a racist, prohibition zealot, led the assault. He hired a black agent provocateur, Jimmy Fletcher, to befriend her and sell her drugs. And Fletcher conducted her first drug bust.
https://youtu.be/-DGY9HvChXk

#workingclass #LaborHistory #jazz #billieholiday #strangefruit #racism #addiction #drugs #lynching #prison

#BillieHoliday #StrangeFruit

Not sure why this came to my head this am, but I need to post it to shake it out of my mind. Heart-wrenching

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DGY9HvChXk

Today in Labor History March 29, 1951: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage. They were executed at Sing Sing in 1953. The Rosenberg’s sons, Michael and Robert Meeropol were adopted by Abel Meeropol, the composer of “Strange Fruit,” (made famous by Billie Holiday). The sons maintained their parents’ innocence. However, after the fall of the Soviet Union, decoded Soviet cables showed that their father had, in fact, collaborated, but that their mother was innocent. They continued to fight for the mother’s pardon, but Obama refused to grant it. The Rosenberg’s sons were among the last students to attend the anarchist Modern School, in Lakewood, New Jersey, before it finally shut its doors in 1958.

The Modern School movement began in 1901, in Barcelona, Spain, when Francisco Ferrer opened his Escuela Moderna. It was one of the very first Spanish schools to be fully secular, co-educational, and open to all students, regardless of class. His ideas were so popular that 40 more Modern Schools opened in Barcelona in just a few years, while 80 other schools adopted his textbooks. In 1909, there were mass protests and a General Strike against Spanish intervention in Morocco. The state responded with a week of terror and repression, during which they slaughtered over 600 workers and falsely executed Ferrer as an instigator of the protests. His execution led to worldwide protests. Modern Schools started to pop up outside of Spain, inspired by his original Escuela Moderna, including 20 in the U.S.

For more on the Modern School movement, read my article: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2022/04/30/the-modern-school-movement/

#workingclass #LaborHistory #deathpenalty #execution #rosenbergs #espionage #ussr #soviet #communism #prison #SingSing #obama #strangefruit #anarchism #modernschool #abelmeerepol

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, separated by heavy wire screen, as they leave U.S. Court House after being found guilty by jury. Ethyl is wearing a bonnet. Julius has glasses, and a thin mustache. By Roger Higgins, photographer from "New York World-Telegram and the Sun" - Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c17772, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1309692

#VirtualPhotography #StrangeFruit https://www.deviantart.com/alexandriabrangwin/art/Even-Stranger-Fruit-1169546647

new track #StrangeFruit uploaded. this will be on the forthcoming album, Meditation Sounds

https://soundcloud.com/pumiquxt/strange-fruit

#VirtualPhotography #StrangeFruit https://www.deviantart.com/alexandriabrangwin/art/Strange-Fruit-1169470737

#billieholiday #strangefruit #cafesociety #newyork #30s

How Billie Holiday’s ‘Strange Fruit’ Exposed America’s Darkest Reality https://shinemycrown.com/how-billie-holidays-strange-fruit-exposed-americas-darkest-reality/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #BlackHistoryMonth #BillieHoliday #StrangeFruit #JazzLegend #CivilRights

Today in Labor History February 11, 1953: Cold War: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower denied all appeals for clemency for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. The government executed them at Sing Sing in 1953. They had been convicted of espionage for the USSR. Their sons, Michael and Robert Meeropol (adopted by Abel Merepol, composer of the anti-lynching song “Strange Fruit,”), maintained their parents’ innocence. However, after the fall of the Soviet Union, decoded Soviet cables showed that their father had collaborated. They continued to fight for the mother’s pardon, but Obama refused to grant it.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #rosenbergs #espionage #deathpenalty #execution #ussr #soviet #communism #prison #coldwar #obama #eisenhower #StrangeFruit #racism #lynching

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, separated by heavy wire screen as they leave U.S. Court House after being found guilty by jury. By Roger Higgins, photographer from "New York World-Telegram and the Sun" - Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c17772, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1309692

"She understood the import of the song and had become identified with it." - FARAH JASMINE GRIFFIN, Strange Fruit, Throughline #Throughline #StrangeFruit #FarahJasmineGriffin

On this day in 1959 Billie Holiday took leave of this earthly burden and left her mortal coil behind. On July 15, she received the last rites of the Roman Catholic Church and died two days later, at the age of 44, on July 17, 1959, at 3:10 a.m., of pulmonary edema and heart failure caused by cirrhosis of the liver.
#BillieHoliday #StrangeFruit

Lyrics for the song “Strange Fruit” by Billie Holiday
#BillieHoliday #StrangeFruit
https://daletra.com/billie-holiday/lyrics/strange-fruit.html

See the lyrics for the song “Strange Fruit” by Nina Simone
#NinaSimone #StrangeFruit
https://daletra.com/nina-simone/lyrics/strange-fruit.html

Today In Labor History April 7, 1915: Jazz legend, Billie Holiday, was born. She was one of the first to sing Abel Meeropol’s, “Strange Fruit,” and performed the most well-known version of the anti-lynching song. Soon after her first public performance of the song, in 1939, the new Federal Bureau of Narcotics started gunning for her. Harry Anslinger, who was a racist, prohibition zealot, led the assault. He hired a black agent provocateur, Jimmy Fletcher, to befriend her and sell her drugs. And Fletcher conducted her first drug bust.
https://youtu.be/-DGY9HvChXk

#workingclass #LaborHistory #jazz #BillieHoliday #StrangeFruit #racism #addiction #drugs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Web007rzSOI&list=RDWeb007rzSOI&start_radio=1

#BillieHollidayHappyBirthday 7 April

#BillieHolliday #StrangeFruit

#musique #musik #musica #music

#SolidarityWithPalestineRadio 🇵🇸 #pouetradio #tootradio #mastoradio #fediradio

Song of the Day April 7 2024

In memory of the birth of Eleanora Fagan bka Billie Holiday

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billie_Holiday

Billie Holiday - “Strange Fruit”

https://youtu.be/pCgyKVxSkuw?si=r3FMMo5YTLZI3Yll

#SongOfTheDay #SOTD #SOTD2024 #EleanoraFagan #BillieHoliday #StrangeFruit #Music #Blues #Racism #BlackHistory #AmericanHistory #Hate #WhiteSupremacy #AudioRecording #Lynching #1930s

Song of the Day April 7 2024

In memory of the birth of Eleanora Fagan bka Billie Holiday

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billie_Holiday

Billie Holiday - “Strange Fruit”

https://youtu.be/pCgyKVxSkuw?si=r3FMMo5YTLZI3Yll

#SongOfTheDay #SOTD #SOTD2024 #EleanoraFagan #BillieHoliday #StrangeFruit #Music #Blues #Racism #BlackHistory #AmericanHistory #Hate #WhiteSupremacy #AudioRecording #Lynching #1930s

Happy Birthday Lady Day.

#BillieHoliday #NowPlaying #music #jazz #blues

#StrangeFruit remains one of the most haunting songs ever recorded: https://open.spotify.com/track/1CTex49P0iWwzUGsMNjgaV?si=5384c371fc6744ab

A 2-page photo spread in Vanity Fair for a feature on Billie Holiday performing Strange Fruit and the origins of the song. A lynched man hangs from a tree on the left page while Lady Day sings in black & white on the right. A caption reads: "One night in 1939 at Café Society, in Greenwich Village, New York's first proudly integrated nightclub outside Harlem, a budding legend named Billie Holiday first sang a new song: "Strange Fruit." The ballad—a lyrical, horrifying description of a lynching—was a musical cry against racism, and with it Holiday continued to shock, anger, and move audiences until her death in 1959. Sixty years after Holiday's revolutionary performance, DAVID MARGOLICK traces the origins of "Strange Fruit" and the way it changed the life of the 24-year-old who dared sing it."

Today in Labor History March 29, 1951: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage. They were executed at Sing Sing in 1953. The Rosenberg’s sons, Michael and Robert Meeropol (adopted by Abel Meeropol, the composer of “Strange Fruit,”), maintained their parents’ innocence. However, after the fall of the Soviet Union, decoded Soviet cables showed that their father had, in fact, collaborated, but that their mother was innocent. They continued to fight for the mother’s pardon, but Obama refused to grant it. The Rosenberg’s sons were among the last students to attend the anarchist Modern School, in Lakewood, New Jersey, before it finally shut its doors in 1958.

For more on the Modern School movement, read my article: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2022/04/30/the-modern-school-movement/

#workingclass #LaborHistory #deathpenalty #execution #rosenbergs #espionage #ussr #soviet #communism #prison #SingSing #obama #strangefruit #anarchism #modernschool #abelmeerepol

#strangefruit

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