http://wikimarion.org/index.php?title=Strange_Fruit&feed=atom&action=historyStrange Fruit - Revision history2024-03-28T16:58:14ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.28.3http://wikimarion.org/index.php?title=Strange_Fruit&diff=4330&oldid=prevHaleyjordan12 at 14:04, 26 May 20112011-05-26T14:04:47Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>“Strange Fruit”, performed by Billie Holiday, is commonly tied to a photograph taken by Lawrence Beitler of a lynching in Marion, Indiana on August 7, 1930. Billie Holiday first performed the song in a night club, Cafe Society in New York in 1939<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. </del>(Margolick) After gaining widespread popularity, Holiday recorded the song and it was released later that year<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. </del>(Margolick) Strange Fruit became an anthem for the anti-lynching movement.  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>“Strange Fruit”, performed by Billie Holiday, is commonly tied to a photograph taken by Lawrence Beitler of a lynching in Marion, Indiana on August 7, 1930. Billie Holiday first performed the song in a night club, Cafe Society in New York in 1939(Margolick)<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. </ins>After gaining widespread popularity, Holiday recorded the song and it was released later that year (Margolick)<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. </ins>Strange Fruit became an anthem for the anti-lynching movement.  </div></td></tr>
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Meeropol wrote under a different name, Lewis Allen<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. </del>(Margolick) The poem was published to the ''New York Teacher'' and Marxist journal ''The New Massesin''in 1936<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">.</del>(Shmoop) Meeropol asked others to make the poem a song, after repeated failed attempts, Meeropol eventually set his poem to music himself<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. </del>(Radio <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Diaris</del>) His wife, Ann, was the first to perform the song, followed by a quartet of black singers<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. </del>(Margolick) Another singer of the song was Laura Duncan, a black vocalist. The most notable performance by Duncan was at Madison Square Garden. It was at Madison Square Garden where Billie Holiday’s director heard the song and asked her to sing it at the night club she performed at<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. </del>(Margolick) She performed at Cafe Society three nights a week<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. </del>(Radio Diaries) She began to sing the song, and it soon became the closing act for Billie Holiday’s set<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. </del>(Margolick) The first time she sang the song, she recalled in her autobiography In her autobiography, "There wasn't even a patter of applause when I finished. Then a lone person began clapping nervously. Then suddenly everyone was clapping<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">.</del>" (Shmoop) The song became known to immediately silence a crowd. It was staged with only a single spotlight on Billie Holiday's face<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">.</del>(Margolick) The song rapidly gained popularity and soon a recorded version was needed. So in April 1939, Holiday and her band took four hours to record "Strange Fruit<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">.</del>" (Margolick) By July, the song had reached number 16 on the charts<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. </del>(Radio Diaries) The song will continure <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">tio </del>live on in the hearts of millions while it still portrays a very important message.  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>“Strange Fruit” began as a poem written by a Jewish school teacher, Abel Meeropol. Meeropol wrote under a different name, Lewis Allen (Margolick)<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. </ins>The poem was published to the ''New York Teacher'' and Marxist journal ''The New Massesin''in 1936 (Shmoop)<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. </ins>Meeropol asked others to make the poem a song, after repeated failed attempts, Meeropol eventually set his poem to music himself (Radio <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Diaries</ins>)<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. </ins>His wife, Ann, was the first to perform the song, followed by a quartet of black singers (Margolick)<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. </ins>Another singer of the song was Laura Duncan, a black vocalist. The most notable performance by Duncan was at Madison Square Garden. It was at Madison Square Garden where Billie Holiday’s director heard the song and asked her to sing it at the night club she performed at (Margolick)<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. </ins>She performed at Cafe Society three nights a week (Radio Diaries)<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. </ins>She began to sing the song, and it soon became the closing act for Billie Holiday’s set (Margolick)<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. </ins>The first time she sang the song, she recalled in her autobiography In her autobiography, "There wasn't even a patter of applause when I finished. Then a lone person began clapping nervously. Then suddenly everyone was clapping" (Shmoop)<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. </ins>The song became known to immediately silence a crowd. It was staged with only a single spotlight on Billie Holiday's face (Margolick)<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. </ins>The song rapidly gained popularity and soon a recorded version was needed. So in April 1939, Holiday and her band took four hours to record "Strange Fruit" (Margolick)<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. </ins>By July, the song had reached number 16 on the charts (Radio Diaries)<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. </ins>The song will continure <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">to </ins>live on in the hearts of millions while it still portrays a very important message.  </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The photograph taken by Lawrence Beiter has become repeatedly tied to “Strange Fruit." The song is used in documentaries, movies, and plays. The Beitler photograph is of two black men lynched in Marion, Indiana. This picture had become the face of lynching. It is a theory that the writer of “Strange Fruit”, Abel Meeropol, was inspired to write the poem  once he saw the famous photograph by Lawrence Beitler<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. </del>(Radio Diaries) There is no definitive evidence that this theory is true, but it is possible since the photo was so widely popular and was circulated nationwide<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. </del>(Madison)</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The photograph taken by Lawrence Beiter has become repeatedly tied to “Strange Fruit." The song is used in documentaries, movies, and plays. The Beitler photograph is of two black men lynched in Marion, Indiana. This picture had become the face of lynching. It is a theory that the writer of “Strange Fruit”, Abel Meeropol, was inspired to write the poem  once he saw the famous photograph by Lawrence Beitler (Radio Diaries)<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. </ins>There is no definitive evidence that this theory is true, but it is possible since the photo was so widely popular and was circulated nationwide (Madison)<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>"I wrote 'Strange Fruit because I hate lynching and I hate injustice and I hate the people who perpetuate it," Meeropol stated. Although Meeropol had written the poem, there had been other stories about who wrote the famous song. Billie Holiday had claimed once that she had wrote the song in her autobiography<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. </del>(Margolick) She later retracted that statement and said, "I ain't never read that book," but her publisher had Holiday read and sign every page of her autobiography<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. </del>(Margolick) Meeropol, who wrote under the pen name Lewis Allan, was the actual author of the song. Abel Meeropol was an English teacher at De Witt Clintion High School in New York for over twenty-seven years. It had seemed that Meeropol lead a double life, one being a school teacher and the othe being a writer of plays, poems, musicals, and ballads<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. </del>(Radio Diaries)</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>"I wrote 'Strange Fruit because I hate lynching and I hate injustice and I hate the people who perpetuate it," Meeropol stated. Although Meeropol had written the poem, there had been other stories about who wrote the famous song. Billie Holiday had claimed once that she had wrote the song in her autobiography (Margolick)<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. </ins>She later retracted that statement and said, "I ain't never read that book," but her publisher had Holiday read and sign every page of her autobiography (Margolick)<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. </ins>Meeropol, who wrote under the pen name Lewis Allan, was the actual author of the song. Abel Meeropol was an English teacher at De Witt Clintion High School in New York for over twenty-seven years. It had seemed that Meeropol lead a double life, one being a school teacher and the othe being a writer of plays, poems, musicals, and ballads (Radio Diaries)<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>“Strange Fruit” began as a poem written by a Jewish school teacher, Abel Meeropol. Meeropol wrote under a different name, Lewis Allen. (Margolick) The poem was published to the ''New York Teacher'' and Marxist journal ''The New Massesin''in 1936.(Shmoop) Meeropol asked others to make the poem a song, after repeated failed attempts, Meeropol eventually set his poem to music himself. (Radio Diaris) His wife, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Laura Duncan </del>was the first to perform the song. (Margolick) The most notable performance by Duncan was at Madison Square Garden. It was at Madison Square Garden where Billie Holiday’s director heard the song and asked her to sing it at the night club she performed at. (Margolick) She performed at Cafe Society three nights a week. (Radio Diaries) She began to sing the song, and it soon became the closing act for Billie Holiday’s set. (Margolick) The first time she sang the song, she recalled in her autobiography In her autobiography, "There wasn't even a patter of applause when I finished. Then a lone person began clapping nervously. Then suddenly everyone was clapping." (Shmoop) The song became known to immediately silence a crowd. It was staged with only a single spotlight on Billie Holiday's face.(Margolick) The song rapidly gained popularity and soon a recorded version was needed. So in April 1939, Holiday and her band took four hours to record "Strange Fruit." (Margolick) By July, the song had reached number 16 on the charts. (Radio Diaries) The song has continued to live on  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>“Strange Fruit” began as a poem written by a Jewish school teacher, Abel Meeropol. Meeropol wrote under a different name, Lewis Allen. (Margolick) The poem was published to the ''New York Teacher'' and Marxist journal ''The New Massesin''in 1936.(Shmoop) Meeropol asked others to make the poem a song, after repeated failed attempts, Meeropol eventually set his poem to music himself. (Radio Diaris) His wife, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Ann, </ins>was the first to perform the song<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, followed by a quartet of black singers</ins>. (Margolick) <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Another singer of the song was Laura Duncan, a black vocalist. </ins>The most notable performance by Duncan was at Madison Square Garden. It was at Madison Square Garden where Billie Holiday’s director heard the song and asked her to sing it at the night club she performed at. (Margolick) She performed at Cafe Society three nights a week. (Radio Diaries) She began to sing the song, and it soon became the closing act for Billie Holiday’s set. (Margolick) The first time she sang the song, she recalled in her autobiography In her autobiography, "There wasn't even a patter of applause when I finished. Then a lone person began clapping nervously. Then suddenly everyone was clapping." (Shmoop) The song became known to immediately silence a crowd. It was staged with only a single spotlight on Billie Holiday's face.(Margolick) The song rapidly gained popularity and soon a recorded version was needed. So in April 1939, Holiday and her band took four hours to record "Strange Fruit." (Margolick) By July, the song had reached number 16 on the charts. (Radio Diaries) The song has continued to live on  </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The photograph taken by Lawrence Beiter has become repeatedly tied to “Strange Fruit.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">” </del>The Beitler photograph is of two black men lynched in Marion, Indiana. This picture had become the face of lynching. It is a theory that the writer of “Strange Fruit”, Abel Meeropol, was inspired to write the poem  once he saw the famous photograph by Lawrence Beitler. (Radio Diaries) There is no evidence that this theory is true, but it is possible since the photo was so widely popular and was circulated nationwide. (Madison) "I wrote 'Strange Fruit because I hate lynching and I hate injustice and I hate the people who perpetuate it," Meeropol stated.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The photograph taken by Lawrence Beiter has become repeatedly tied to “Strange Fruit.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">" The song is used in documentaries, movies, and plays. </ins>The Beitler photograph is of two black men lynched in Marion, Indiana. This picture had become the face of lynching. It is a theory that the writer of “Strange Fruit”, Abel Meeropol, was inspired to write the poem  once he saw the famous photograph by Lawrence Beitler. (Radio Diaries) There is no <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">definitive </ins>evidence that this theory is true, but it is possible since the photo was so widely popular and was circulated nationwide. (Madison)</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">===Writing "Strange Fruit"===</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>"I wrote 'Strange Fruit because I hate lynching and I hate injustice and I hate the people who perpetuate it," Meeropol stated<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. Although Meeropol had written the poem, there had been other stories about who wrote the famous song. Billie Holiday had claimed once that she had wrote the song in her autobiography. (Margolick) She later retracted that statement and said, "I ain't never read that book," but her publisher had Holiday read and sign every page of her autobiography. (Margolick) Meeropol, who wrote under the pen name Lewis Allan, was the actual author of the song. Abel Meeropol was an English teacher at De Witt Clintion High School in New York for over twenty-seven years. It had seemed that Meeropol lead a double life, one being a school teacher and the othe being a writer of plays, poems, musicals, and ballads. (Radio Diaries)</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">==Works Cited==</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1.Madison, James H.. A Lynching in the Heartland: Race and Memory in America. New York City: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Print.</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">2.Margolick, David . Strange Fruit. Philidelphia: Harper Collins, 2000. Print. </ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">3.Diaries, Radio. "Strange Fruit: Anniversary Of A Lynching : NPR." NPR : National Public Radio : News & Analysis, World, US, Music & Arts : NPR. N.p., n.d. Web. 26 May 2011. <http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129025516>. </ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>“Strange Fruit”, performed by Billie Holiday, is commonly tied to a photograph taken by Lawrence Beitler of a lynching in Marion, Indiana on August 7, 1930. Billie Holiday first performed the song in a night club, Cafe Society in New York in 1939. After gaining widespread popularity, Holiday recorded the song and it was released later that year. Strange Fruit became an anthem for the anti-lynching movement.  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>“Strange Fruit”, performed by Billie Holiday, is commonly tied to a photograph taken by Lawrence Beitler of a lynching in Marion, Indiana on August 7, 1930. Billie Holiday first performed the song in a night club, Cafe Society in New York in 1939. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">(Margolick) </ins>After gaining widespread popularity, Holiday recorded the song and it was released later that year. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">(Margolick) </ins>Strange Fruit became an anthem for the anti-lynching movement.  </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">“Strange Fruit” began as a poem written by a Jewish school teacher, Abel Meeropol. Meeropol wrote under a different name, Lewis Allen. (Margolick) The poem was published to the ''New York Teacher'' and Marxist journal ''The New Massesin''in 1936.(Shmoop) Meeropol asked others to make the poem a song, after repeated failed attempts, Meeropol eventually set his poem to music himself. (Radio Diaris) His wife, Laura Duncan was the first to perform the song. (Margolick) The most notable performance by Duncan was at Madison Square Garden. It was at Madison Square Garden where Billie Holiday’s director heard the song and asked her to sing it at the night club she performed at. (Margolick) She performed at Cafe Society three nights a week. (Radio Diaries) She began to sing the song, and it soon became the closing act for Billie Holiday’s set. (Margolick) The first time she sang the song, she recalled in her autobiography In her autobiography, "There wasn't even a patter of applause when I finished. Then a lone person began clapping nervously. Then suddenly everyone was clapping." (Shmoop) The song became known to immediately silence a crowd. It was staged with only a single spotlight on Billie Holiday's face.(Margolick) The song rapidly gained popularity and soon a recorded version was needed. So in April 1939, Holiday and her band took four hours to record "Strange Fruit." (Margolick) By July, the song had reached number 16 on the charts. (Radio Diaries) The song has continued to live on </ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">“Strange Fruit” began as a poem written by a Jewish school teacher, Abel Meeropol. Meeropol wrote under a different name, Lewis Allen. The poem was published to the New York Teacher in 1936. Meeropol asked others to make the poem a song, but he eventually made it a song on his own. His wife, Laura Duncan was the first to perform the song. The most notable performance by Duncan was at Madison Square Garden. It was at Madison Square Garden where Billie Holiday’s director heard the song and asked her to sing it at the nightclub she performed at. She began to sing the song, and it soon became the closing act for Billie Holiday’s set. </del></div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">===The Photo===</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">==The Photo==</del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The photograph taken by Lawrence Beiter has become repeatedly tied to “Strange Fruit.” The Beitler photograph is of two black men lynched in Marion, Indiana. This picture had become the face of lynching. It is a theory that the writer of “Strange Fruit”, Abel Meeropol, was inspired to write the poem  once he saw the famous photograph by Lawrence Beitler. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">(Radio Diaries) </ins>There is no evidence that this theory is true, but it is possible since the photo was so widely popular and was circulated nationwide<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. (Madison) "I wrote 'Strange Fruit because I hate lynching and I hate injustice and I hate the people who perpetuate it," Meeropol stated</ins>.</div></td></tr>
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</table>Haleyjordan12http://wikimarion.org/index.php?title=Strange_Fruit&diff=4158&oldid=prevHaleyjordan12 at 14:24, 25 May 20112011-05-25T14:24:31Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>“Strange Fruit” began as a poem written by a Jewish school teacher, Abel Meeropol. Meeropol wrote under a different name, Lewis Allen. The poem was published to the New York Teacher in 1936. Meeropol asked others to make the poem a song, but he eventually made it a song on his own. His wife, Laura Duncan was the first to perform the song. The most notable performance by Duncan was at Madison Square Garden. It was at Madison Square Garden where Holiday’s director heard the song and asked her to sing it at the nightclub she performed at. She began to sing the song, and it soon became the closing act for Billie Holiday’s set.  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>“Strange Fruit” began as a poem written by a Jewish school teacher, Abel Meeropol. Meeropol wrote under a different name, Lewis Allen. The poem was published to the New York Teacher in 1936. Meeropol asked others to make the poem a song, but he eventually made it a song on his own. His wife, Laura Duncan was the first to perform the song. The most notable performance by Duncan was at Madison Square Garden. It was at Madison Square Garden where <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Billie </ins>Holiday’s director heard the song and asked her to sing it at the nightclub she performed at. She began to sing the song, and it soon became the closing act for Billie Holiday’s set.  </div></td></tr>
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</table>Haleyjordan12http://wikimarion.org/index.php?title=Strange_Fruit&diff=4144&oldid=prevHaleyjordan12 at 14:12, 25 May 20112011-05-25T14:12:49Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'''</del>Billie<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">''' ''</del>Holiday<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">''</del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">“Strange Fruit”, performed by </ins>Billie Holiday<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, was most commonly tied to a photograph taken by Lawrence Beitler of a lynching in Marion, Indiana on August 7, 1930. Billie Holiday first performed the song in a night club, Cafe Society in New York in 1939. After gaining widespread popularity, Holiday recorded the song and it was released later that year. Strange Fruit became an anthem for the anti-lynching movement. </ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">“Strange Fruit” began as a poem written by a Jewish school teacher, Abel Meeropol. Meeropol wrote under a different name, Lewis Allen. The poem was published to the New York Teacher in 1936. Meeropol asked others to make the poem a song, but he eventually made it a song on his own. His wife, Laura Duncan was the first to perform the song. The most notable performance by Duncan was at Madison Square Garden. It was at Madison Square Garden where Holiday’s director heard the song and asked her to sing it at the nightclub she performed at. She began to sing the song, and it soon became the closing act for Billie Holiday’s set. </ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">==The Photo==</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The photograph taken by Lawrence Beiter has become repeatedly tied to “Strange Fruit.” The Beitler photograph is of two black men lynched in Marion, Indiana. This picture had become the face of lynching. It is a theory that the writer of “Strange Fruit”, Abel Meeropol, was inspired to write the poem  once he saw the famous photograph by Lawrence Beitler. There is no evidence that this theory is true, but it is possible since the photo was so widely popular and was circulated nationwide.</ins></div></td></tr>
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