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."
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as Billie Holiday
AliveBorn: December 30, 1984
Age: 41
Spokane, Washington, USA
as Jimmy Fletcher
AliveBorn: February 10, 1990
Age: 36
Ponchatoula, Louisiana, USA
as Harry Anslinger
AliveBorn: September 3, 1984
Age: 42
Roseau, Minnesota, USA
as Reginald Lord Devine
DeceasedBorn: April 29, 1955
Died: October 24, 2022
Age at death: 67
as Miss Freddy
AliveBorn: October 13, 1982
Age: 43
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
as Mrs. Fletcher
AliveBorn: September 11, 1956
Age: 69
Memphis, Tennessee, USA
as Tallulah Bankhead
AliveBorn: April 4, 1979
Age: 47
New York City, New York, USA
as Louis McKay
AliveBorn: February 24, 1973
Age: 53
USA
as Roslyn
AliveBorn: May 21, 1986
Age: 40
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
as Agent Williams
AliveBorn: August 26, 1988
Age: 38
Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
as Lester 'Prez' Young
AliveBorn: October 9, 1992
Age: 33
Westchester County, New York, USA
as John Levy
AliveBorn: August 10, 1983
Age: 43
Decatur, Georgia, USA
as Agent Carter
AliveBirth date not on record.
Dallas, Texas, USA
as Sadie
AliveBorn: July 31, 1979
Age: 47
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
as Joe Guy
AliveBorn: September 22, 1988
Age: 37
Portsmouth, Virginia, USA
as James Monroe
AliveBirth date not on record.
as Carl The Drummer
AliveBirth date not on record.
as Joe Glaser
AliveBirth date not on record.
Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia
as Lucille
AliveBirth date not on record.
as Working Class Woman
AliveBirth date not on record.
as Working Class Man
AliveBirth date not on record.
as Velva
AliveBirth date not on record.
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
as Bobby Tucker
AliveBirth date not on record.
as Auditioning Sax Player
AliveBirth date not on record.
as Congressman JP Thomas
AliveBirth date not on record.
as Roy Cohn
AliveBorn: May 20, 1995
Age: 31
Hunterdon, New Jersey, USA
as Congressman J. Rankin
AliveBorn: November 30, 1957
Age: 68
as Senator J. McCarthy
AliveBorn: May 17, 1971
Age: 55
Boise, Idaho, USA
as Louis Armstrong
AliveBorn: July 4, 1974
Age: 52
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
as Guitar Player
AliveBirth date not on record.
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