By reading the “Strange Fruit” I could not stop myself from experiencing a mix of lots of feelings such as indignity, anger and disappointment.  Well it is always disappointing to read about lynching in America and not ask yourself why and how were people not able to feel angry about of how society treated people and not be touched especially if you are an African American yourself.  One of the many interesting things about “Strange Fruit” is how a poetry with so much meaning became a song of huge prestige and became really famous among artists, performers and musicians especially taking in consideration that political protests were not expressed in musical form at that time.  “Strange Fruit” brought awareness to real problems and it also expressed the brutality of that time period and made it visible to everybody to see since a lot of people tented to hide the fact that lynching was a common thing in every African American life.  “Strange Fruit” was considered the first protest song and if you really think about it gave space to other protest songs that until today plays a huge role on today’s society.  Poetry was too quiet for people to understand the message so they decided to add music which definitely made it louder.   By hearing to “Strange Fruit”   the song version it is hard not to picture what was happening in every single lyric. ” Black body swinging in the southern breeze” shows the exactly who were the people being lynched: African American.  ‘Strange Fruit hanging from the poplar trees” which meant bodies of people hanging on tress as if they were fruits on tress, but strange ones.  I believe when you found yourself listening to songs such as “Strange Fruit” you more likely will look at music differently.  You will see more than just a few lyrics put together to match the wave of the beat, but you also will understand that music can be an important and efficient way to deliver message to people.