The United States Vs. Billie Holiday Site

The film centers on the U.S. government's obsession with Holiday’s performance of Strange Fruit , a powerful protest song against the lynching of Black Americans in the South.

, chief of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, views the song as politically threatening and "un-American". The United States vs. Billie Holiday

: Unable to legally stop her from singing, the government uses Holiday’s struggles with heroin addiction as a pretext to arrest and discredit her. The Undercover Operation The film centers on the U