Desiree Burch
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692 appearances
7 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 31 Jul
Desiree Burch’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You're Dead to Me · Lena Horne: racism and resilience in the Golden Age of Hollywood · 20 Feb 2026
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need you repeat half of that because I went for a tailspin the second you said that the hairdresser was not allowed to touch her head is this like a Jim Crow thing like no water fountains no hair you can't touch your head because it'll bite your fingers off and you'll be you'll be black as soon as you touch her hair like okay so they just had to put design the wigs and then she had to do it herself
She had a USO show, I imagine, behind with horns and a little dress looking in a hat.
And it's not like they put the black service members at like the back of the trenches, you know, like I'm sure they sent them right in right up front.
I mean, if she's hanging out with Paul Robeson and doing all the organising, is she about to get a big C stamped all over her?
Because this is that time, right?
Not cancer kids.
OK, OK.
There is all of those kind of...
But she's back in America now?
OK, so she's in the 50s.
She's all throughout Europe.
She's like not really based anywhere.
She's just performing and recording.
And obviously came out when we used to say colored people.
Yes.
Yeah, because they didn't want to change the acronym later when we were black.
No idea what Lenny did or what he was like.
He was just a white man she didn't trust.
But then she did enough to marry him.
He gave her a career in Europe and then he dipped.
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