Word: deen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well-known story of Strange Fruit is, to be sure, a steadily enlarging one. The star-crossed love of white Tracy Deen (Melchor Ferrer) and Negro Nonnie Anderson (Jane White) widens out beyond personal tragedy into social tragedy. The rooted Southern prejudices, the rankling inequalities, the violence that leads Nonnie's brother to murder Tracy, the feeling that leads a mob to lynch an innocent Negro for the crime-all these are like pieces in a sociological puzzle...
...alleged reason for suppression is, of course, obscenity. But the one passage in the bok where an objectionable word is used is when Nonnie Anderson, the Negro girl who is going to have a baby, reflects on the cruelty of her situation. Tracy Deen, the white man who loved her but who is deserting her under the force of social pressures, tries to compel her to marry Big Henry, a Negro whom she loathes. At that point all the brutalities she has ever known well up in her mind, and she recalls the ugly sexual advances this same Henry made...
Heat, Sin and Revival. Strange Fruit tells of Nonnie Anderson, a tall, slender, black-eyed, gentle Negro girl who has been in love with Tracy Deen, the son of Maxwell's doctor, since she was six years old. Now, when he is home from the war, with his college career broken off, with his father urging him to become a doctor and his mother after him to join the church, their love affair has grown into a deeper companionship. He also likes to talk to her. Strange Fruit begins (and reaches its most moving passages) with Nonnie...