The Martin Luther King Story. Strange Fruit Meaning. The scene was New York City, 1939.
The popular new integrated cabaret club, Café Society, had a hot new performer on stage three nights a week. Her name was Billie Holiday. The club's founder had heard a powerful new protest song written by Lewis Allan, the pen name of Jewish high school teacher and left-wing activist named Abel Meeropol. The song was "Strange Fruit," a haunting critique of lynching and race terrorism in the American South. With some hesitation, perhaps because of the gravity of the song's content, Billie agreed to close her set with it.
In her autobiography, Holiday later recalled the audience's stunned reaction: "There wasn't even a patter of applause when I finished. Though no one at the time knew it, when Billie Holiday first sang "Strange Fruit" at Café Society, she was singing America into the beginning of the Civil Rights Era. The key players of this story were all drastically affected by racism in America. Then there was Abel Meeropol. Strange Fruit By Billie Holiday W/ Lyrics. Mississippi Burning. The film also features Frances McDormand, Brad Dourif, R.
Lee Ermey, and Gailard Sartain in supporting roles. It won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography, and was nominated in a number of other categories including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor. Filming locations included a number of locales in central Mississippi and in LaFayette, Alabama. Plot[edit] In 1964, three civil rights workers who organize a voter registry for minorities in Jessup County Mississippi, go missing. The burning of a cross, similar to scenes depicted in the film. The wife (McDormand) of Deputy Sheriff Clinton Pell (Dourif), reveals to Anderson in a discreet conversation that the missing civil rights trio have been murdered, with their bodies buried in an earthen dam.
They arrange for a kidnapping of mayor Tilman (Ermey), taking him to a remote shack. Anderson and Ward exploit the new information to concoct a plan, luring identified KKK collaborators to a bogus meeting. Cast[edit] Production[edit] I Have A Dream Speech (TEXT) Rev.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is celebrated today, Jan. 16, 2011, on what would have been the civil rights leader's 83rd birthday. It's a great day to revisit the "I Have A Dream" speech he delivered in 1963 in Washington, D.C. The full text is below, and you can watch MLK Jr. deliver the speech himself, above. I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. BBC History - Martin Luther King. Ku Klux Klan - Facts & Summary. In 1915, white Protestant nativists organized a revival of the Ku Klux Klan near Atlanta, Georgia, inspired by their romantic view of the Old South as well as Thomas Dixon’s 1905 book “The Clansman” and D.W.
Griffith’s 1915 film “Birth of a Nation.” This second generation of the Klan was not only anti-black but also took a stand against Roman Catholics, Jews, foreigners and organized labor. It was fueled by growing hostility to the surge in immigration that America experienced in the early 20th century along with fears of communist revolution akin to the Bolshevik triumph in Russia in 1917. The organization took as its symbol a burning cross and held rallies, parades and marches around the country.
At its peak in the 1920s, Klan membership exceeded 4 million people nationwide. The Great Depression in the 1930s depleted the Klan’s membership ranks, and the organization temporarily disbanded in 1944. Lynched blacks. 10 Outrageous Reasons Black People Were Lynched in America. Strange Fruit lyrics.