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Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit.

• 11h25, 1st
  August
  2009
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  • lebogang nkoane

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• Sometime, long ago, we did this song as part of our English literature, Standard 8 (grade 10?) and I read it was inpired by this photograph: August 7th of 1930, the night Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith were hanged. Marion, Indiana. hatti […]

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