Billie Holiday records Strange Fruit
1939 · Work
Searing anti-lynching song; transformed popular music's political range.
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- Livery Stable Blues (Original Dixieland Jass Band) (1917)
- Maybellene (Chuck Berry) (1955)
Around 1939
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- World War II (1939)
- The Holocaust (1941)
- Founding of the State of Israel (1948)
- Cold War (1947)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- D-Day (Operation Overlord) (1944)
- Great Depression (1929)
- Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941)
- United Nations founded (1945)