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Billie Holiday and the Tragic Song, Strange Fruit

On a cold March night in 1939, an unusual audience gathered at the club, Cafe Society, a new jazz club on West 4th Street in Greenwich Village, New York City. They came because Café Society was an unusual club. It … Continue reading

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