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Two African-American men, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, are lynched in Marion, Indiana, USA. Photographs of the lynching will be sold by the thousands, and will inspire school teacher, Abel Meeropol to write the song Strange Fruit, most famously recorded by Billie Holiday in 1939. Strange Fruit is an early example of what will later come to be known as a protest song.
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