For those who may not be familiar with the song Strange Fruit, here's a excerpt from that song's wikipedia page:
Strange Fruit" is a song performed most famously by Billie Holiday. It condemned American racism, particularly the lynching of African Americans that had occurred chiefly in the South but also in the North for decades before this was written. Holiday's version of the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1978.[2] It was also included in the list of Songs of the Century, by the Recording Industry of America and the National Endowment for the Arts...

"Strange Fruit"

Single by Billie Holiday
A-side Fine and Mellow
Released 1939
Format 78 rpm
Recorded April 20, 1939[1]
Genre Blues
Label Commodore
Writer(s) Abel Meeropol

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Fruit

Also, here's a link to a YouTube video of Billie Holiday singing Strange Fruit:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4ZyuULy9zs
"Rare Live Footage of one of the firtst anti rascism songs ever" [sic]