Strange Fruit
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Album:Josh White Vol. 5 (1944)
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Just wanted to add this. It's my fave version of this horrifically painful song. I'm black, white, and Cherokee, and my mom's (who's black and Cherokee) family is from the South (the Florida Panhandle and somewhere else in the Deep South). 
My mom used to tell me stories about when they drove from Connecticut to Florida when she was a girl in the 1940s and 1950s. The cops would pull them over and my grandmother would make my mom and her sisters and brother pretend to be asleep while they beat the shit out of my grandfather. My mom didn't go to a desegregated school until college, and she grew up in New Haven, CT. She's told me stories about the projects and drinking in separate fountains, going to separate theaters, the burning crosses, Southern family disappearing after the KKK rode through town, Jim Crow. I think of that everytime I hear this song and a part of me dies a little each time...
My mom used to tell me stories about when they drove from Connecticut to Florida when she was a girl in the 1940s and 1950s. The cops would pull them over and my grandmother would make my mom and her sisters and brother pretend to be asleep while they beat the shit out of my grandfather. My mom didn't go to a desegregated school until college, and she grew up in New Haven, CT. She's told me stories about the projects and drinking in separate fountains, going to separate theaters, the burning crosses, Southern family disappearing after the KKK rode through town, Jim Crow. I think of that everytime I hear this song and a part of me dies a little each time...
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