The United States vs. Billie Holiday

2021 ยท film

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."

  • heroin addiction
  • fbi agent
  • war on drugs
  • jazz singer or musician
  • louisiana
  • new orleans
  • surveillance
  • 1950s