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April 7, 2023

Billie Holiday Mugshot in May 1947

Jazz great Billie Holiday was photographed by Bureau of Prisons officials in May 1947. Holiday, 32 at the time, was locked up for eight months in the federal prison in Alderson, West Virginia on a drug conviction. She died in 1959 at age 44.

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  1. Another incredible American thrown under the bus of racism.

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