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"Mississippi Goddam" is a song written and performed by American singer and pianist Nina Simone, who later announced the anthem to be her "first civil rights song". [1] Composed in less than an hour, the song emerged in a “rush of fury, hatred, and determination” as she "suddenly realized what it was to be black in America in 1963."
"Mississippi Goddam" is a protest song written by Simone in 1963 immediately after the Alabama Church Bombing that killed four young girls. [5] A minute into the performance, Simone addresses the audience, saying "This is a show tune, but the show hasn't been written for it yet."
On her debut album for Philips, Nina Simone in Concert (1964), for the first time she addressed racial inequality in the United States in the song "Mississippi Goddam". This was her response to the June 12, 1963, murder of Medgar Evers and the September 15, 1963, bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, that killed four ...
American experimental band Xiu Xiu covered "Four Women" on its 2013 Nina Simone tribute album Nina. The song inspired the 2016 play Nina Simone: Four Women by Christina Ham. In the play, Nina meets the first three women (she is the fourth) at the site of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, and they become the characters in her song.
Mississippi Goddam, a song written and performed by American singer and pianist Nina Simone Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Goddam .
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("Mississippi Is Offering Lessons for America on Education," was the latter's headline.) As an old journalism adage has it, the story is "interesting, if true." A close examination of the numbers ...