Good pairing with Where’s My Roy Cohn and Citizen Cohn.
The director’s father and uncle were raised by Anne and Able Meeropol. The film includes some charming footage of this remarkable man. Able Meeropol wrote the lyrics for Strange Fruit and set the poem to music with his wife and Laura Duncan.
https://www.npr.org/2012/09/05/158933012/the-strange-story-of-the-man-behind-strange-fruit
For 17 years Able Meeropol taught at DeWitt Clinton High School where one of his students was James Baldwin. https://www.rfc.org/blog/article/2290
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Note: Watched this film on Amazon Prime.