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Yeah. Billy Holiday was a global superstar.

And she is the godmother of civil rights.

What makes her life a phenomenal story is that she had the government against her because

she wanted to sing Strange Fruit, which was a song about lynching, and they told her no.

Black body's a song about important things, you know, things that are going on in the country.

Strange fruit in the black community is almost like this battle cry.

No one would allow us to speak on it.

The only way to get into the hearts and living rooms of America was through song.

It's really the story of her being one of the first freedom fighters because it was her singing that song

unapologetically and defiantly that re-invigorated the civil rights movement and that's what they

hated her for.

Southern trees. Get her off that stage.

They're strange fruit.

Hey, get on to me!

After seeing strange fruit, you know, police would be shooting into her car as she's driving away.

Anslinger was the director of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics.

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