Strange Fruit — Billie Holiday — #8 in Top 10 Most Controversial Song Lyrics | Top10Grid
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Strange Fruit — Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday's 1939 anti-lynching song was so disturbing in its imagery of Black bodies hanging from trees that Columbia Records refused to release it, and it was surveilled by the FBI for decades.
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