Lena Horne
By: Lauriani Bautista
5 facts about Lena Horne
~She was a great-granddaughter of a freed slave
~Horne was 16 when she started singing in the Cotton Club
~She was the only black person to have an all white band
~She stopped performing for a while when she lost her father,son, and husband
~She said " I'm me" "and I'm like nobody else"
My Claim
My claim is that she had brave because she did a one woman show. There are a lot of people so I would have fainted. My next reason is that she was brave enough to be in the civil rights movement.