Primary Source: “Strange Fruit” Recorded by Billie Holiday (1939)
Discussion Questions
- What was the major social impact of the Great Migration?
- Identify the major push and full factors of movement?
- How does Strange Fruit use imagery to explore the South as a place of terror?
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