Eunice Kathleen Waymon, better known as Nina Simone, was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, and civil rights activist. Although she disliked being categorized, Simone is generally classified as a jazz musician. Her work covers an eclectic variety of musical styles, such as jazz, soul, folk, R&B, gospel, and even pop music. Her vocal style is characterized by passion, breathiness, and tremolo. Simone recorded over 40 live and studio albums, …

Abel Meeropol (1903 - 1986) was an American writer best known under his pseudonym Lewis Allan, under which he wrote the anti-lynching poem "Strange Fruit" which he subsequently set to music and which was famously performed by Billie Holiday. Meeropol was the writer of countless poems and songs, including the Frank Sinatra hit "The House I Live In". He taught at DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx, and on the side was an ardent, but closet, …

Lillian Smith was a writer and social critic of the Southern United States, known best for her best-selling novel "Strange Fruit" (1944). A white woman who openly embraced controversial positions on matters of race and gender equality, she was a southern liberal unafraid to criticize segregation and work toward the dismantling of Jim Crow laws, at a time when such actions almost guaranteed social ostracism.

Thomas Shipp was an African-American who was lynched on August 7, 1930 in Marion, Indiana along with Abram Smith. They had been arrested the night before, charged with robbing and murdering a white factory worker and raping his girlfriend. A large crowd broke into the jail with sledgehammers, beat the two men, and hanged them. Police officers in the crowd cooperated in the lynching. A third person, 16 year old James Cameron, …

Abram Smith and Thomas Shipp were lynched on August 7, 1930 in Marion, Indiana. They had been arrested the night before, charged with robbing and murdering a white factory worker and raping his girlfriend. A third person, 16 year old James Cameron, narrowly escaped lynching thanks to an unidentified participant who announced that he had nothing to do with the rape or murder.

Robert Meeropol is the younger son of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. Meeropol was born in New York City. His father Julius, an electrical engineer, was a member of the Communist Party. His mother Ethel (née Greenglass), a union organizer, was also active in the Communist Party. When Robert was six years old, his parents were executed for conspiracy to commit espionage.

Monica Arac de Nyeko (born 1979) is a Ugandan writer of short fiction, poetry, and essays. She was educated at Makerere University and the University of Groningen. In 2007 she won the Caine Prize for the story "Jambula Tree." The story concerns two teenage girls falling in love and facing an unforgiving community because of it. One of her other noted stories is "Strange Fruit", which contains an allusion to the song of the same name.

Ivy Meeropol is a producer and director of documentary films and television series, a screenwriter, a journalist, and a writer of fiction. She attended Sarah Lawrence College and Oxford University, and worked, in her twenties, as a speechwriter and legislative aide for U.S. Congressman Harry Johnston , handling such issues as education, children, the judiciary, women, immigration, Haiti/Cuba, crime, drugs, and welfare.

Kellita Smith (born July 11, 1969 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American actress and model Kellita Smith was born in the city of Chicago in 1969. In 1972, Smith moved to Oakland, California to live her mom, after her parents divorced. In 1989, Smith earned a degree in political science from the Santa Rosa Junior College. After taking early jobs as a saleswoman and an administrative assistant, Smith enrolled in an acting workshop.

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