Dr. Hannah Tericium Robbins

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You're Dead to Me · Lena Horne: racism and resilience in the Golden Age of Hollywood · 20 Feb 2026 podcast

So she was expected to do separate shows for the white officers than for black soldiers.

But she noticed that prisoners of war were sat in front of the black soldiers.

So initially she would go to the back of the performance space and sing directly to the black soldiers.

But eventually she just started to refuse to perform.

So Lena parted ways with the USO because of her sort of feelings of

concern about the way her black soldiers were being treated and that led her to reach out and find new ways of accessing service people and that included working with the NAACP but also through the army special services division so segregation in the army and she'd already faced that with the cotton club she'd already sort of lived through that once and so she here she was to a certain extent bringing sort of 20 years of progress and the army was still way behind is that fair

Yeah, absolutely.

I think the reality of imprisoned people fighting on the other side, getting a better seat was really challenging to confront.

And all of these black service people fighting for America not being treated the same.

And black soldiers.

Certainly at the beginning, yes.

He is.

Lena Horne marries the MGM arranger and conductor Lenny Hayton.

Initially, they don't get on.

She didn't trust white men, in her words, and he didn't trust singers.

But eventually, they get acquainted.

Yeah, could have framed that better.

Never mind.

They build this relationship together and eventually in 1947, they get married in Paris.

But their partnership is extremely controversial in public and private because interracial marriage is still illegal in California.

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