Strange Fruit
- ISBN-10
- 0156856360
- ISBN-13
- 9780156856362
- Series
- Strange Fruit
- Category
- African Americans
- Pages
- 371
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1992
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Author
- Lillian Eugenia Smith
Description
Prelude and aftermath of a lynching in Georgia, depicting the South's unsolved racial problem.
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