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Nina Simone. Early Life. Born February 21 st , 1933 in North Carolina Grew up in a poor family Gave her first recital at 12 Faced discrimination http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvByxvEd8qA Given a chance to study at Julliard but ran out of money and had to quit. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Born February 21st, 1933 in North Carolina
Grew up in a poor familyGave her first recital at 12
Faced discriminationhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=RvByxvEd8qAGiven a chance to study at Julliard but
ran out of money and had to quit
President Kennedy Shot and killed in TX
Lee Harvey Oswald killed and shot by Jack Ruby
MLK gives I have a Dream speech
Medgar Evers killed by the Klu Klux Klan
16th Street Baptist Church Bombing (white supremacist terrorism)
Although classically trained she played gospel, pop, folk and jazz
Wrote Mississippi Goddam in the same year MLK gave his famous speech in response to the assassination of Medgar Evers and other famous songs after MLK died.
Written in response to death of Medgar Evers (to KKK) and to the death of four school girls due to a bomb
Hides message in an upbeat tune but those words are meant to be screamed not sung.
It quickly became a civil rights activist anthem and was banned in several Southern states
“You don’t have to live next to me”=>NIMBYism