“Strange Fruit” is a powerful song written by a Jewish- American school teacher, Abel Meeropol, later sang by Billie Holiday, and changed the history of American music in late 1930s. Some people believed that “Strange Fruit” is an early cry for civil rights while others believe it is the beginning of Civil Right movement. Although radio station refused to play this song at first, it ended up as one of the top twenty songs of 1930s. Abel Meeropol, a school teacher at New York City inspired to write the song “Strange Fruit” after seeing a photograph of lynching two African American black men in 1930s believed as Thomas Shiip and Abraham Smith. He published “Strange Fruit” in 1937 in both magazine The New York Teacher and in the Mazzist Journal,