Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday, Café Society And An Early Cry For Civil RightsBy: David Margolick The story of the song that foretold a movement and the Lady who dared sing it. Billie Holiday's signature tune, 'Strange Fruit', with its graphic and heart wrenching portrayal of a lynching in the South, brought home the evils of racism as well as being an inspiring mark of resistance. The song's powerful, evocative lyrics written by a Jewish communist schoolteacher portray the lynching of a black man in the South. In 1939, its