1944 LILLIAN SMITH. Strange Fruit. Banned Book on Interracial Marriage - Signed! John Wesley Remarkable Escapes from Peril

Remarkable Escapes from Peril

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1944 LILLIAN SMITH. Strange Fruit. Banned Book on Interracial Marriage - Signed! John Wesley Remarkable Escapes from PerilA fascinating work detailing an interracial relationship told explicitly as a pre Civil rights critique of ongoing racism under Jim Crow. In it, she uses the ultimate union of races in a romantic context as a paradigmatic rejection of all segregation, separate but equal policies, etc,. the title was derived from the title of the Billie Holiday 1939 song, Strange Fruit. The strange fruit growing on Southern trees was of course a reference to ongoing