Police: Black man found hanging from tree in Greene County

[Judi Lynn]

31. How many nooses have been found in colleges, or high schools,

deliberately meant to intimdate young black people going to school there?

One was discussed here several years ago, I think in Louisiana, put up in the only large tree around the school, where students like to stand after lunch to get cooler in its shade.

It provoked anger from some of the black students, who were then harassed and bullied by the local white cops.

It's not as if the idea of hanging black men and women from trees is exactly unknown in the south.

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"Strange Fruit" is a song performed most famously by Billie Holiday, who first sang and recorded it in 1939. Written by teacher Abel Meeropol as a poem and published in 1937, it protested American racism, particularly the lynching of African Americans. Such lynchings had reached a peak in the South at the turn of the century, but continued there and in other regions of the United States.[2][3] Meeropol set it to music and, with his wife and the singer Laura Duncan, performed it as a protest song in New York venues in the late 1930s, including Madison Square Garden.

The song continues to be covered by numerous artists, as well as inspiring novels, other poems and other creative works. In 1978, Holiday's version of the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.[4] It was also included in the list of Songs of the Century, by the Recording Industry of America and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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