Gems at the J | Special MLK Day Program: Monday Matinee – Strange Fruit Documentary
Kaiserman JCC 45 Haverford Rd, Wynnewood, PA, United StatesInstructor: David Greenberg, Associate Professor University of the Arts, Adjunct Assistant Professor Drexel University In 1937, after seeing a photo depicting the lynching of a black man in the south, Bronx-born high school teacher Abel Meeropol wrote a poem entitled “Strange Fruit” that begins with the words: “Southern trees bear a strange fruit / Blood […]