“ How do you know am a Communist? It was commenced to elevate funds for
the Communist Party. Feldstein: Abbey Lincoln's profession began very a great
deal in the mold that Lena Horne had established quite a few a long time before.
Feldstein: Robeson was enormously influential in phrases of the approaches in which he modeled currently being an activist
entertainer. Holiday: ♪ Black bodies swingin' in the Southern breeze ♪ ♪ Strange fruit
hangin' from the poplar trees ♪ Feldstein: Lena Horne afterwards talked about that as a time of awakening for her.
Regester: Paul Robeson was a renowned Black intellectual and as he became much
more, uh, disconcerted with the politics of America and he grew to
become a sort of worldwide figure, his political beliefs and sights
definitely affected Lena Horne. Horne: I met Paul Robeson, who became a portion of my life.
Horne: I started to thrive. Keys: I'll by no means overlook the to start with time I played
at Montreux Jazz Festival. The person who had operate the pageant considering that, you
know, it began he has an archive of each individual man or woman that's at any
time touched the stage. ”