THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
ART AND CULTURE OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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“Them There Eyes”
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“Strange Fruit”
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“Why was I Born?”
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“You Better Go Now”
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Detailed explanation-1: -Abel Meeropol, a Jewish American whose family had fled pogroms in Czarist Russia, wrote “Bitter Fruit” as a reflection on the August 7, 1930 photo of the lynchings of J. Thomas Shipp and Abraham S. Smith in Marion, Indiana.
Detailed explanation-2: -"Strange fruit” is a euphemism for the lynched bodies of African Americans hanging and swaying from trees. Strange Fruit is also the name of one of most powerful protest songs ever written: a haunting song made famous by Billie Holiday, the Jazz diva.
Detailed explanation-3: -"Strange Fruit” is a poem written by Abel Meeropol, a white, Jewish high school teacher from the Bronx and a member of the Communist Party, as a protest against lynchings. He sometimes published under the pen name Lewis Allan, after two sons who were stillborn.
Detailed explanation-4: -“Strange Fruit” is a song performed most famously by Billie Holiday, who first sang and recorded it in 1939.