10 Musicians Who’ve Dedicated Their Music To Transforming Society - Page 10
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Brande Victorian
Nina Simone
When her song “Mississippi Goddam,” released as a response to the murder of Medgar Evers and the bombing of a church in Birmingham, was boycotted in certain southern states, Nina Simone took that charge seriously and from then on included a civil rights message in all of her recordings and performances going forward.
Though she spoke at many marches in Selma and Montgomery, Simone’s approach to civil rights differed from that of the leader of the time, Martin Luther King, Jr. Simone advocated violent revolution, insisting that, by force, African Americans could form their own separate state.
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