Tallulah Bankhead sits and talks with "Father of the Blues" and fellow Alabamian W. C. Handy. A devoted supporter of the civil rights movement, Bankhead helped Handy start a fund to provide resources to emerging Black musicians in the 1950s.
Tallulah Bankhead and W. C. Handy
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