Abel Meeropol's

 Abel Meeropol's "Strange Fruit"

Abel Meeropol, a young and progressive schoolteacher, came across a picture of a lynching in Omaha, Nebraska, America, sometime in the early 1930s. He was so horrified by what he saw that he produced a poem about similar atrocities in America between 1900 and 1920 as a result of the pictures that bothered him for days. The Methodist and Baptist ministers' sermons would draw thousands of white people, who would then carry out their own kind of white justice to defend the honor of white women against these black rapists. That was the horrible story that these bigots with bloodlust were peddling. Undoubtedly, any black individual who displayed symptoms of what the racists referred to as "uppitiness" was the cause of these lynchings.

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