Lena Horne was born into an upper-middle class black family in Brooklyn, New York on June 30th 1917. Her mother moved her into the south, and deep into poverty. But at age 16, she moved back to ...

had a crucial role in raising her granddaughter — Lena Horne. Despite her mother’s fame, Mrs. Buckley wrote, her “skin was still black and she still faced the discrimination that all blacks ...