There have been many infamous photographs taken during America’s
dark time of racism. Among one happened not in the South but in the heartland—Marion, Indiana.
This particular photograph had inspired poet, Abel Meeropol,
to write the song Strange Fruit, which
became one of Billie Holiday’s...
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