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."
Genres: Drama , History , Music
Keywords: 1940s , 1950s , ban-from-profession , biography , fbi-agent , heroin-addiction , jazz-singer-or-musician , new-orleans-louisiana , surveillance , war-on-drugs