"The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth," she sang slowly and deliberately. Written by Jewish schoolteacher Abel Meeropol, the song was a mournful dirge for Black victims of lynchings in the Jim Crow-era South, vividly likening their bodies to fruit "hanging from the poplar trees." In March 1939, a then-23-year-old Billie Holiday closed out her set at New York's Cafe Society with a song she hadn't performed before: "Strange Fruit." Watch Video: Andra Day explains how she related to Billie Holiday for new movie
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