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Original Title
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title unknown
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Devised Title
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Strange Fruit
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Date
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1999
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Contributor
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Alvia J. Wardlaw
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Description
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Lee’s collage speaks to the 1998 lynching of James Byrd, Jr., in Jasper, Texas. Byrd’s murder provided part of the impetus for the passage of stronger anti-hate crime laws in Texas and federally. The collage references the anti-lynching poem/song “Strange Fruit,” made famous by Billie Holiday. Lee, sometimes called “Da Mayor of Fifth Ward,” grew up in Houston’s Fifth Ward, but his family traces its roots to Jasper, where three white supremacists lynched Byrd and desecrated his body.
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Additional Subject
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American South
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Black art
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Death
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Lynching
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Memory
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Racial violence
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Type
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Mixed media
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Medium
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newspaper on paper
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Additional Techniques
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collage
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Measurements
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7 in x 5 in
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Format
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JPEG
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HBCU Identifier
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e.9
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HCAC Identifier
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HCAC.TSU.0168
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Rights
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All rights held by the University Museum at Texas Southern. For permission to publish, distribute, or use this image for any other purpose, please contact University Museum, Texas Southern University umuseum@gmail.com Attn: Museum Director. Materials not created by Texas Southern University may still be under copyright. Additional materials may be presented for educational and research purposes in accordance with fair use under United States copyright law.
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Contributing Institution
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Texas Southern University
