They even performed it at Madison Square Garden with the blues song vocalist Laura Duncan. Under the pseudonym, Lewis Allan, Meeropol set his poem to music and performed “Bitter Fruit” as a protest song in the New York area alongside his wife Anne. One man looks back toward the camera as he points at the atrocity. The photo shows the bodies of Shipp and Smith hanging from nooses as a crowd of white people stare at their bodies. Cameron was able to escape the mob, but Shipp and Smith were dragged out of their jail cells and beaten to death.
Shipp, 18, Smith, 19, and 16-year-old James Cameron were accused of robbery, murder and rape.
But the NAACP’s efforts were continually knocked down by white supremacists in the Democratic Party who used filibusters to defeat any such bills.Ībel Meeropol, a Jewish American whose family had fled pogroms in Czarist Russia, wrote “Bitter Fruit” as a reflection on the Augphoto of the lynchings of J. More than 4,000 Black people were publicly murdered in the United States between 18, according to the Equal Justice Initiative’s 2015 report, Lynching in America. “Strange Fruit” was written during a decade when activist organizations such as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People were pressing lawmakers to make lynching a federal crime.
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