How It Feels to Be Free

Winner of the Benjamin L. Hooks National Book AwardWinnter of the Michael Nelson Prize of the International Association for Media and HistoryIn 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 me so upset/Tennessee made me lose my rest/And everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam!" Simone, and her song, bec...