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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."
 
                    













 
                                     
                                     
                                     
                                     
                                     
                                     
                                     
                                     
                                     
                                     
                                    