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Billie Holiday: Jazz Singer by Meredith Coleman McGee is a full-length biography from birth through the 30-year musical career of the late Great Lady Day, who became the defining voice in jazz in Harlem, New York in 1933. By the end of that decade, Billie Holiday recorded the protest song Strange Fruit about a public lynching of two Black males in Marion, Indiana. The 1939 recording became her signature song thrusting her into the spotlight as a race woman. Her newfound fame caught the attention of one of the most powerful law enforcement agents in the nation. His vision and her passion on race clashed. His power to maintain the status quo overshadowed her passion to lift her race.

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Meredith Coleman McGee, a poet, a professional writer, book publisher, book collector, lecturer, and small business owner, is the author of six full-length and seven children's books which include: Billie Holiday: Jazz Singer, Baby Bubba and Kay, Juneteenth: Freedom Day, Midnight Moon, Every Inch Love Will, Odyssey, Nashida: Visits Mississippi's Old Capitol Museum, James Meredith: Warrior and the America that created him, Nashida: Visits the Smith Robertson Museum, Nashida: Visits the Mississippi State Capitol, Married to Sin (Casada al Pecado), My Picture Dictionary, and My First Book Series. McGee chairs Community Library Mississippi and promotes early literacy. McGee is a native of Los Angeles, California. She was raised in the Capital City of Jackson, Mississippi.

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