Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday, Cafe Society, And An Early Cry For Civil Rights by David Margolick

Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday, Cafe Society, And An Early Cry For Civil Rights

David Margolick with Cassandra Wilson

160 pages • first pub 2000 (view editions)

nonfiction biography history music informative reflective sad fast-paced
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From four-time Pulitzer Prize nominee David Margolick, STRANGE FRUIT explores the story of the memorable civil rights ballad made famous by Billie Holiday in the late 1930s. The song's powerful, evocative lyrics-written by a Jewish communist schoo...

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