Café Society was a renowned New York nightclub that opened in the late 1930s. It was the first racially integrated club in the United States, and was where Billie Holiday first sang the haunting Strange Fruit.
The club’s name was a deliberate and mocking reference to “café society” – the lives of the rich and glamorous, the “bright young things” who went to the right places and were seen with the right people, beautifully dressed by the best…
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