1944 LILLIAN SMITH. Strange Fruit. Banned Book on Interracial Marriage - Signed! John Wesley 1844 and Marlborough in 1844

1844 and Marlborough in 1844

And this little document was the first stroke

for then I might have taken many other more fit in the Scriptures

Oliphant and Co

but on the whole quite an attractive item

1944 LILLIAN SMITH. Strange Fruit. Banned Book on Interracial Marriage - Signed! John Wesley 1844 and Marlborough in 1844A 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