Lena Horne's legacy
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Channel: Oxford Academic (Oxford University Press) · 2014 · Education
Ruth Feldstein, author of How it Feels to Be Free: Black Women Entertainers and the Civil Rights Movement, discusses how Lena Horne paved the way for black entertainers in the mid-20th century. http://global.oup.com/academic/product/how-it-feels-to-be-free-9780195314038 Ruth Feldstein is Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University, Newark. She is the author of How it Feels to Be Free: Black Women Entertainers and the Civil Rights Movement. © Oxford University Press Image credits: Publicity photo of Lena Horne for her 1961 show, Nine O'Clock Revue. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lena_Horne_1961.JPG Diahann Carroll, 1955. Photograph by Carl Van Vechten. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2004662670/
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