The amazing Nina Simone /

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Let it be me /

Table of Contents: “…My baby just cares for me / Gus Kahn, Walter Donaldson (3:01) -- Sugar in my bowl / Nina Simone (3:15) -- Fodder on my wings / Nina Simone (6:00) -- Be my husband / Andy Stroud (3:54) -- Just like a woman / Bob Dylan (3:38) -- Balm in Gilead / traditional (3:19) -- Stars / Janis Ian (4:31) -- If you pray right (heaven belongs to you) / Nina Simone (2:53) -- If you knew / Nina Simone ; Let it be me / Mann Curtis, Gilbert Becaud (7:14) -- Four women / Nina Simone (4:52) -- Mississippi goddam / Nina Simone (5:02) -- Baltimore / Randy Newman (4:42).…”
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Princess Noire : the Tumultuous Reign of Nina Simone. by Cohodas, Nadine

Table of Contents: “…Prelude to a Fugue ~ June 1950-May 1954; 6. The Arrival of Nina Simone ~ June 1954-June 1956; 7. Little Girl Blue ~ July 1956-December 1958; 8. …”
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Nina : a story of Nina Simone / by Todd, Traci N.

“…Story of Nina Simone…”

Race, nation, & empire in American history /

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Sisters in the life : a history of out African American lesbian media-making /

Table of Contents: “…From rage to resignation : reading Tina Mabry's 'Mississippi damned' as a post-civil rights response to Nina Simone's "Mississippi goddam" /…”
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Angels of the night : popular female singers of our time / by Mellers, Wilfrid Howard, 1914-

Table of Contents: “…From tent show to cabaret: the word and the horn: Ruth Etting, Ethel Waters, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn, Carmen McCrae, Pearl Bailey, Abbey Lincoln, Betty Carter -- Soul, Motown, and the fusion of sacred and profane: Odetta, Nina Simone, Aretha Franklin, Dionne Warwick, The Loving Sisters, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Diana Ross and the Supremes, The Pointer Sisters, Esther Phillips, Roberta Flack, Randy Crawford, Donna Summer, Deniece Williams, Angela Bofill -- II. …”

Four women /

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Bonus disc Series 3.

American rhapsody : writers, musicians, movie stars, and one great building / by Pierpont, Claudia Roth

Table of Contents: “…Scott Fitzgerald -- Behind the Mask: Bert Williams and Stepin Fetchit -- Jazzbo: George Gershwin -- The Silver Spire: The Chrysler Building -- Tough Guy: Dashiell Hammett -- The Collector: Peggy Guggenheim -- Born For The Part: Katharine Hepburn -- The Player Kings: Orson Welles and Laurence Olivier -- Method Man: Marlon Brando -- Another Country: James Baldwin -- A Raised Voice: Nina Simone.…”

How it feels to be free : black women entertainers and the Civil Rights Movement / by Feldstein, Ruth, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…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": Abbey Lincoln, Diahann Carroll, and the promise of integration in popular culture -- "So beautiful in those rags": Cicely Tyson, popular culture, and African American history in the 1970s.…”

Dream big, little one / by Harrison, Vashti

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: Mae Jemison -- Bessie Coleman -- Katherine Johnson -- Josephine Baker -- Shirley Chisholm -- Maya Angelou -- Wilma Rudolph -- Raven Wilkinson -- Florence Joyner -- Ella Fitzgerald -- Nina Simone -- Oprah Winfrey -- Gwen Ifill -- Nichelle Nichols -- Alma Woodsey Thomas -- Augusta Savage -- Octavia E. …”

White Negroes : when cornrows were in vogue ... and other thoughts on cultural appropriation / by Jackson, Lauren Michele, 1991-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Appropriation and American mythmaking -- The pop star : swinging and singing -- The cover girl : blackness, groundbreaking -- The artist : a dead boy made art -- The hipster : the new white Negro -- The meme : Kermit the Frog meets Nina Simone -- The viral star : opposite from stardom -- The chef : America's whiteface mammy -- The entrepreneur : a bit free -- The activist : the time for anger -- Conclusion: Business as usual.…”

How it feels to be free : black women entertainers and the civil rights movement / by Feldstein, Ruth, 1965-

Table of 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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Poor gal : the cultural history of Little Liza Jane / by Gutstein, Daniel

Table of Contents: “…Johnson : "Oh, goodbye Liza Jane" -- From the New Orleans levee to the Hampton Institute : "Little Liza Jane" ad infinitum -- Intermission number two : the literary "Liza Jane" of Charles Chesnutt, Jean Toomer, and Margaret Walker -- You went a-driving with Mister Brown : the Tin Pan Alley publishing bonanza -- Poor gal -- I'se got a gal and you got none : a countess-composer and an actress-aviatrix popularize "Li'l Liza Jane" -- Intermission number three : Effie Lee Newsome's "Charcoal, Leddy, charcoal" and Betty Vincent's "Problems of the heart" -- "Liza Jane" meets the media : film, animation, radio, television -- The Lomaxes -- The constellation that connects Langston Hughes and David Bowie, Antonín Dvořák and Nina Simone -- Portrait of a young enslaved woman standing still in the cathedral silence of the deep woods after a dance -- Appendix 1. …”

We pursue our magic : a spiritual history of Black feminism / by Magloire, Marina

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How to go mad without losing your mind : madness and Black radical creativity / by Bruce, La Marr Jurelle, 1981-

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Black journal.

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Little leaders : bold women in Black history / by Harrison, Vashti

Table of Contents: “…Wells -- Zora Neale Hurston -- Alma Woodsey Thomas -- Alice Ball -- Bessie Coleman -- Augusta Savage -- Marian Anderson -- Josephine Baker -- Mahalia Jackson -- Rosa Parks -- Gwendolyn Brooks -- Ella Fitzgerald -- Mamie Phipps Clark -- Katherine Johnson -- Shirley Chisholm -- Althea Gibson -- Maya Angelou -- Nichelle Nichols -- Nina Simone -- Audre Lorde -- Raven Wilkinson -- Wilma Rudolph -- Marcelite Harris -- Angela Davis -- Octavia E. …”

Anthem : social movements and the sound of solidarity in the African diaspora / by Redmond, Shana L.

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