Lena Horne
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title:
Lena Horne
text:
Lena Mary Calhoun Horne was an American singer, actress, dancer, and civil rights activist. Horne's career spanned more than seventy years and covered film, television, and theatre. Horne joined the chorus of the Cotton Club at the age of sixteen and became a nightclub performer before moving on to Hollywood and Broadway. A groundbreaking African-American performer, Horne advocated for civil rights and took part in the March on Washington in August 1963. Later she returned to her roots as a nigh
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Singer, actress, dancer and activist (1917–2010)
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lena_Horne
date created:
2003-07-09T14:28:20Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T10:23:12Z
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