Strange Fruit: Words Protesting Lynchings and Burnings

Amos Kennedy’s artists’ book Strange Fruit: Words Protesting Lynchings and Burnings exemplifies his engagement with social concerns and underscores his identity as a “social printer.” “Strange Fruit” is the name of a poem written in 1937 by Abel Meeropol that served as the basis of a protest song and, ultimately, Billie Holliday’s well-known song. Meeropol, like other artists of the 1930s, felt compelled to respond to injustice and violence against Black people in the United States.