“Strange Fruit” was written by American author and songwriter Abel Meeropol. He originally composed it as a poem titled “Bitter Fruit” under his pen name, Lewis Allen. The poem was published in 1937 in The New York Teacher, the magazine of the city’s teacher’s union, as well the leftist journal New Masses.
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