Black Women Entertainers and the Civil Rights Movement
by
Ruth Feldstein
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Winner of the Benjamin L. Hooks National Book Award Winnter of the Michael Nelson Prize of the International Association for Media and History In 1964, Nina Simone sat at a piano in New York's Carnegie Hall to play what she called a "show tune." Then she began to sing: "Alabama's got...