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How it feels to be free : black women entertainers and the civil rights movement / Ruth Feldstein.

By: Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, [2013]Description: 296 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780195314038 Hbk
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 323.1196 FEL
Contents:
Introduction: performing civil rights "The world was on fire": making New York City subcultures -- "Africa's musical ambassador": Miriam Makeba and the "voice of Africa" in the United States -- "More than just a jazz performer": Nina Simone's border crossings -- "No one asks me what I want": black women, Hollywood, and "integration narratives" in the late 1960s – "So beautiful in those rags": Cicely Tyson and African American history in the 1970s -- Epilogue.
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Introduction: performing civil rights
"The world was on fire": making New York City subcultures
-- "Africa's musical ambassador": Miriam Makeba and the "voice of Africa" in the United States -- "More than just a jazz performer": Nina Simone's border crossings
-- "No one asks me what I want": black women, Hollywood, and "integration narratives" in the late 1960s
– "So beautiful in those rags": Cicely Tyson and African American history in the 1970s -- Epilogue.