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Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday and the Power of a Protest Song

Book Description
The audience was completely silent the first time Billie Holiday performed a song called "Strange Fruit." In the 1930s, Billie was known as a performer of jazz and blues music, but this song wasn't either of those things. It was a song about injustice, and it would change her life forever.

Discover how two outsiders Billie Holiday, a young black woman raised in poverty, and Abel Meeropol, t... More
Book Information
PublisherMillbrook Press, Inc.- Carolrhoda Books
BindingLibrary Binding (2 editions)
Reading LevelUncategorized
# of Pages40
ISBN-101467751235
ISBN-13978-1467751230
Publication Date02/01/2017
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About Gary Golio (Author) : Gary is the author of JIMI: Sounds Like A Rainbow (Clarion/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), When Bob Met Woody - The Story of the Young Bob Dylan (Little, Brown), and the forthcoming Spirit Seeker: John Co... more
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About Charlotte Riley-Webb (Illustrator) : An Atlanta native, Charlotte Riley-Webb moved with her family to Cleveland, Ohio as a toddler, she earned her B.F.A. degree from The Cleveland Institute of Art and has continued her education through... more
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