Date:         Fri, 6 Aug 2010 21:32:03 -0400
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From:         David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Subject:      Re: Fryedaye Strange Fruit
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At 09:00 PM 8/6/2010 Friday, Jim Felder wrote:
>Note to the original post: Indiana isn't in the south (the song is
>about southern fruit, the incident cited happened in the north)

The poem was written in NYC by a man who saw the photo five years
later...and this incident was one of around five thousand
lynchings.  I suspect the majority were in the south.

>  and
>wasn't that an Etta James (or similar) song in the 60s?.

The original author set it to music and Billie Holliday made it her
trademark.  You can hear it on Youtube I'm pretty sure.

Yrs,
d