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Lena Horne's parents were both a mixture of Black White and Native American. She was born in Brooklyn NYC to parents of her same background and shade of skin. She may have self identified as black and was clearly proud of her black heritage but, movie studios of the forties were afraid to use her opposite black men. She photographed so light in black and white.
In short her background was that of a very multiracial American who embraced her African American heritage.
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her parents were mixed black,native American, and white so shes mixed but identifies as black. She is a light skinned black American. Throughout black history all blacks have been partially mixed with European & Native American. In the old days they used to tell the lighter skinned blacks to marry each other because it was thought they would do better in society. As a result some blacks are just very light but not necessarily any more or less mixed than the average black American. Lena Horne's parents do not have a known fully white parent and always lived in upper class black communities.
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