In 'The United States vs Billie Holiday,' Lee Daniels Tackles the Untold Story of the Jazz Singer’s Civil Rights Activism
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hollywoodreporter.comOn a list of Civil Rights movement leaders, few people would think to name Billie Holiday. But in his new movie, The United States vs Billie Holiday, starring Andra Day, Lee Daniels shines a light on that facet of the jazz singer’s story, in which Holiday’s 1939 song about lynching, "Strange Fruit," made her a target of the FBI. "When you think of Civil Rights leaders, you think of men," Daniels says. "When you think of Billie Holiday, you think of this brilliant tortured jazz singer that happened to have been a drug addict.
I didn't know that she kicked off the Civil Rights movement. Before there was a Civil Rights movement, there was Billie Holiday and 'Strange Fruit.' The government saw that song as a threat and she was a target.
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