Lawrence Beitler

Lawrence Beitler ( - 1961 [ [http://indianahistory.org/library/manuscripts/collection_guides/p0379.html H. P. Dexheimer / Lawrence H. Beitler Collection, CA. 1897-CA. 1930] .] ) was a studio photographer who on August 7, 1930, took a photograph of the lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith. The photograph later sold thousands of copies ["Lawrence Beitler, a studio photographer, took this photo. For ten days and nights he printed thousands of copies, which sold for fifty cents apiece." From "A Time of Terror".Vague|date=April 2008 ] and inspired the political poem "Strange Fruit" by the Jewish poet Abel Meeropol. The poem was later transformed into a song and was most famously performed by Billie Holiday.

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