In nineteen forty, Lena Horne became the first African-American to travel and perform with an all-white jazz band.

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In the nineteen forties, Lena Horne was the first African-American in Hollywood to sign a long-term contract with a major movie studio.

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Lena Horne later wrote that the movie producers did not make her into a servant, but they did not make her into anything else either.

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At the age of nineteen, Lena Horne moved to Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania and married Louis Jones.

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Faith Lapidus has more on Lena Horne, her music and her rich life.

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Lena Horne once said that World War Two helped make her a star.

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Lena Horne died in two thousand ten at the age of ninety-two.

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She soon began making movies. Lena Horne said that she was able to make movies because she was the kind of black person that white people could accept.

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Horne was generally only offered the role of a nightclub singer.

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Lena Horne was born in nineteen seventeen in Brooklyn,New York.

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Lena Horne performed in a strong and expressive way.

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Today we remember the singer and actress Lena Horne.

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"Stormy Weather" also became Lena Horne's best known song.

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In nineteen forty-seven, Lena Horne married Lennie Hayton.

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Lena Horne also sang at civil rights gatherings.

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Lena Horne became very popular.

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Many top dignitaries, like New York State Governor David Paterson, also made a point of coming to Horne's memorial service.

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Rochelle Thompson, an African American woman did not know Horne personally, but credited her with inspiring her own, more humble singing career.

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Soon,inside the packed church, Horne's coffin was solemnly brought in, and the congregation began to sing an old spiritual hymn dear to Horne herself.

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And in my repertoire I do 'I've Grown Accustomed to His Face to her version. Personal friends such as Marjorie Andrews, who was introduced to Horne thirty years ago through family relations, were also in attendance.

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