strange fruit

Questions

What does strange fruit mean?

A person who has been lynched by hanging; such people collectively.

Where does strange fruit come from?

From a poem by Abel Meeropol later recorded by Billie Holiday (1939), see quotations.

How to pronounce strange fruit

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