He changes his mind after a conversation with a local preacher and intends to make his relationship with Nonnie public. The two have a secret affair, and Nonnie becomes pregnant by Tracy, who secretly plans for her to marry "Big Henry," whom she despises, while he marries the good little white girl his parents expect him to marry. Strange Fruit takes place in a Georgia town in the 1920s and focuses on the relationship between Tracy Deen, son of prominent white townspeople, and Nonnie, a beautiful and intelligent young Black woman whom he once rescued from attacking white boys. Roosevelt interceded at his wife Eleanor's request. Postal Service until President Franklin D. Strange Fruit was also banned from being mailed through the U.S. Smith maintained the book's title referred to the "damaged, twisted people (both black and white) who are the products or results of our racist culture." Īfter the book's release, it was banned in Boston and Detroit for "lewdness" and crude language. In her 1956 autobiography, singer Billie Holiday wrote that Smith named the book after her 1939 song " Strange Fruit", which was about lynching and racism against African Americans. Its working title was Jordan is so Chilly, but Smith retitled it Strange Fruit prior to publication. Strange Fruit is a 1944 bestselling debut novel by American author Lillian Smith that deals with the then-forbidden and controversial theme of interracial romance.
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