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- Nina Became a Key Part in the Civil Rights Movement
- The Biggest Turn in Nina Simone's Career
- Nina Simone's Life Dies Down
- By the mid-1960s, Simone became known as the voice of the Civil Rights Movement. She wrote Mississippi Goddam in response to the 1963 assassination of Medgar Evers and the Birmingham church bombing that killed four young African American girls. She also penned Four Women, chronicling the complex histories of a quartet of African American female figures, and Young, Gifted and Black, borrowing the title of a play by Hansberry, which became a popular anthemShe used her platform and voice to sing songs of Black empowerment during a time where the treatment of Blacks was at an all time low.
- Her most controversial song she sang in predominantly white clubs was “Strange Fruit”. This song was about the lynching of blacks that was happening in the South. She faced a lot of backlash and a bit of blackballing by whites during this time. She sang about discrimination against blacks before, but this was her first song that openly pointed out the racist terrorism that happened. and majority white people did not take well to this.
- In the 1970s, as public attention toward the Civil Rights Movement declined, Simone’s music faded in popularity. She and Stroud divorced and Simone left the United States, eventually settling in France. Simone attributed her move abroad to what she saw as the worsening racial situation in the U.S. The Curtis Institute of Music, which had rejected Simone back in 1950, named her an honorary doctor in music and humanities in 2003. Two days later, she died from cancer at her home in Carry-le-Rouet, France.
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