Word: fruit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...STRANGE FRUIT-Lillian Smith-Reynal & Hitchcock...
...first some Atlanta bookstores refused to stock the book. Strange Fruit, they charged, was "dirty," its picture of the South was dated. By last week Atlanta booksellers, bug-eyed perhaps at the 22,000-copy first printing (and advance sales of almost 20,000) of Lillian Smith's first novel, had changed their minds, ordered heavily...
...Strange Fruit takes its title from a Negro song about a lynching, written by Lewis Allan and sung by Billie Holiday...
Southern trees bear a strange fruit...
...Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees...