Last weekend marked the 85th anniversary of Billie's Holiday's recording of "Strange Fruit," a protest song against the lynching of Black Americans, written by Abel Meeropol (father of RFC Founder, Robert Meeropol).
Holiday's recording of the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1978, well after her death in 1959. Time Magazine named it "Song of the Century" in 1999, and according to Mississippi Today, the British music publication Q included it among their "10 songs that actually changed the world."
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