NPR Recalls Strange Fruit

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Strange Fruit: Anniversary Of A Lynching

Eighty years ago, two young African-American men, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, were lynched in the town center of Marion, Ind. The night before, on Aug. 6, 1930, they had been arrested and charged with the armed robbery and murder of a white factory worker, Claude Deeter, and the rape of his companion, Mary Ball.

That evening, local police were unable to stop a mob of thousands from breaking into the jail with sledgehammers and crowbars to pull the young men out of their cells and lynch them.

News of the lynching spread across the world. Local photographer Lawrence Beitler took what would become the most iconic photograph of lynching in America. The photograph shows two bodies hanging from a tree surrounded by a crowd of ordinary citizens, including women and children. Thousands of copies were made and sold. The photograph helped inspire the poem and song "Strange Fruit" written by Abel Meeropol — and performed around the world by Billie Holiday.

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Once again, the Media piles on the guilt for lynchings when there were less than 3,000 Negroes lynched after the Civil War. Of course, NO MENTION IS EVER MADE of the ongoing White Genocide or the fact that Negroes have murdered over 500,000 Whites in the same period of time...

 

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Russian Jew: Abel Meeropol (February 10, 1903 – October 29, 1986)[1] was an American songwriter and poet whose works were published under his pseudonym, Lewis Allan. He wrote the poem "Strange Fruit" (1937), which was recorded by Billie Holiday. Meeropol was a member of the American Communist Party from 1932 to 1947.[1]

Early life​

Meeropol was born in 1903 to Russian Jewish immigrants in The Bronx, New York City.[2][3] Meeropol graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School in 1921 (his classmate Countee Cullen graduated in 1922); he earned a B.A. degree from City College of New York, and an M.A. from Harvard. He taught English at DeWitt Clinton High School for 17 years.[4] During his tenure he taught the notable author and BLACK racial justice advocate James Baldwin.

Meeropol published his work under the pseudonym of "Lewis Allan" in memory of the names of his two stillborn children.

Personal life​

Meeropol was a communist and sympathetic to Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.[1] Later, he and his wife Anne adopted the Rosenbergs' two sons, Michael and Robert, who were orphaned after their parents' executions for espionage. Michael and Robert took the surname Meeropol.

Death​

Meeropol died October 30, 1986, at the Jewish Nursing Home in Longmeadow, Massachusetts.

 

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Michael and Robert took the surname Meeropol.

Looks almost like Noel Ignatiev, also a Russian Jew.

Michael Meeropol - Wikipedia

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In June of 2022 he openly called for non-violent nuisance protest at the homes of NRA board members because they enable mass murderers. The exact quote as reported by FOX is:

"I believe NRA board members should be subjected to personal attacks," ... "I am not recommending violence but certainly active civil disobedience and nuisance activities that might land oneself in jail are definitely called for."

He also floated the idea of throwing red paint on the front stoop, driveway and lawn of their homes in order to make them "uncomfortable."

 

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His daughter, Ivy Meeropol worked as a speechwriter and legislative aide to Congressman Harry Johnston (D-Florida), and then began a career as a journalist, publishing articles in The New York Times, O, The Oprah Magazine, Premiere, Nest, Paper, Black Book Magazine, and Provincetown Arts Magazine, where she was also the fiction editor.[2]

 

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Black Book Magazine,

 

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"Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day be day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except the endless present in which the party is always right." ~ George Orwell

 

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Rosenbergs' two sons, Michael and Robert,

Robert is married to Ellen Meeropol. They have two daughters: Jennifer and Rachel. Rachel has become a lawyer for the Center for Constitutional Rights in New York City.[7]

• The Center for Constitutional Rights[2] (CCR) is a progressive non-profit legal advocacy organization based in New York City, New York, in the United States. It was founded in 1966 by Arthur Kinoy, William Kunstler and others particularly to support activists in the implementation of civil rights legislation and to achieve social justice.
• Kinoy was a member of the National Lawyers Guild, serving as national vice president in 1954. In 1964, at the height of the Civil Rights Movement activities in the South to end disenfranchisement and segregation, he participated in a conference sponsored by the National Lawyers Guild's Committee for Legal Assistance in the South. It briefed attorneys on legal problems confronting civil rights demonstrators in Mississippi, where state and local governments resisted change. He and his partner, William Kunstler, were two of the most prominent attorneys during the 1960s to handle civil rights cases in the South.
• William Moses Kunstler (July 7, 1919 – September 4, 1995) was an American lawyer and civil rights activist, known for defending the Chicago Seven.[1] Kunstler was an active member of the National Lawyers Guild, a board member of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the co-founder of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), the "leading gathering place for radical lawyers in the country."[2]
• Kunstler played an important role as a civil-rights lawyer in the 1960s, traveling to many of the segregated battlegrounds to work to free those who had been jailed. Working on behalf of the ACLU, Kunstler defended the Freedom Riders in Mississippi in 1961.[11]

Civil Rights was a Russian Jew led operation.

 

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Michael and Robert took the surname Meeropol

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70 Years After Their Executions, Rosenberg Sons Still Looking to Clear their mother's name...​

Jun 21, 2023Seventy years after the executions of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, their sons, Michael and Robert Meeropol, have renewed their efforts to clear their mother's name. Just ten and six years old when their parents were executed for