Her voice would not be silenced.
Billie Holiday spent much of her career being adored by fans. In the 1940s, the government targeted Holiday in a growing effort to racialize the war on drugs, ultimately aiming to stop her from singing her controversial ballad, "Strange Fruit."
March 31, 2021
Lee Daniels Entertainment, Roth-Kirschenbaum Films
69 people
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Billie Holiday
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