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Strange fruit : Billie Holiday and the power of a protest song /

Silence. That was the response at Cafe Society 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 her song wasn't either of those things. It was a song about injustice, and it would change h...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Golio, Gary (Author)
Other Authors: Riley-Webb, Charlotte (Illustrator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : Millbrook Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Holiday, Billie, > 1915-1959 > Juvenile literature.
Allan, Lewis, > 1903-1986. > Strange fruit > Juvenile literature.
Holiday, Billie, > 1915-1959.
Allan, Lewis, > 1903-1986. > Strange fruit.
Strange fruit (Allan, Lewis)
Lynching > United States > History > Juvenile literature.
Lynching > History.
Lynching.
United States.
Picture books for children.
Picture books.
Illustrated works.
Biographies.
History.
Juvenile works.

Evans: Curriculum Collection (4th floor)

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Call Number: ML3930.H64 G65 2017
 
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