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Martin68

(22,671 posts)
1. Billie Holiday couldn't sleep in the same hotel as her white bandmates.
Wed Feb 23, 2022, 11:08 PM
Feb 2022

The Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) refused to allow Marian Anderson to sing to an integrated audience in Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C.

Ziggysmom

(3,374 posts)
2. The look on her face makes me cry. We've come so far and now the repubes want to go back
Wed Feb 23, 2022, 11:43 PM
Feb 2022

to the way we were before The Civil Rights Act of 1964.

XacerbatedDem

(511 posts)
6. So terrible...
Thu Feb 24, 2022, 12:18 PM
Feb 2022

But you know what, I'm glad she never let that stop her from being who she was, one of the greatest singers of our time.

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