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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 ...
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Simone told her these were books, articles and poems written “by Black people who look like you.’” “Sometimes when I think about it, I want to cry…” Flanagan said.
"Go Limp" is the penultimate track on Nina Simone's 1964 album Nina Simone in Concert, and is an adaptation of a protest song originally written by Alex Comfort during his involvement with the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. [1] The melody and part of the chorus is taken from the folk ballad "Sweet Betsy from Pike".
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"Mississippi Goddam", Nina wrote this civil rights song after four black girls died during a church bombing, first featured on Nina Simone in Concert (1964). "Moon over Alabama", together with "Mississippi Goddam". Nina sings this song to show that the two songs have a similar melody.