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Podcast: Of Thee We Sing: Music and the Civil Rights Movement
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Of Thee We Sing: Strange Fruit
Category: Education
Duration: 00:12:18
Publish Date: 2015-02-11 08:01:02
Description: The lynching of black men in the American South was an all-too-familiar occurrence in the 1930s, even though it rarely made news. So when Billie Holiday had a hit record with the song Strange Fruit, it brought attention to this important issue in unusual ways.
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