What Up February Day 2

Howard Mandel maintains that jazz artists were in the forefront of the civil rights movement, which you can read at this link.
http://www.artsjournal.com/jazzbeyondjazz/2009/01/civil_rights-jazz_document_196.html

Last month now-ousted Governor Rod Blagoevich used the word “lynching” to describe the tactics of his opponents. He had no right to use that word, especially with no offered qualification. Billie Holiday’s song is about lynching, and is perhaps one of the first anti-racism songs. Here’s rare footage of “Lady Day” singing “Strange Fruit.”