Nina Simone as a civil rights activist
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Channel: Oxford Academic (Oxford University Press) · 2014 · Education
Ruth Feldstein, author of How it Feels to Be Free: Black Women Entertainers and the Civil Rights Movement, discusses the ways Nina Simone used her music to fight for civil rights. http://global.oup.com/academic/product/how-it-feels-to-be-free-9780195314038 Author Bio: Ruth Feldstein is Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University, Newark. She is the author of How it Feels to Be Free: Black Women Entertainers and the Civil Rights Movement. © Oxford University Press Image credits: Nina Simone in 1965. Image courtesy of Dutch National Archives, Creative Commons license http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nina_Simone_1965.jpg Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking at an anti-war demonstration in New York City, 1967. World Journal Tribune photo by Don Rice. Image courtesy of the Library of Congress. http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/cph.3c11165/
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