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Nina Simone wrote and performed this song, which she later identified as her inaugural civil rights composition. Created rapidly in under an hour during a period of emotional intensity, the track appeared on her 1964 album Nina Simone in Concert, which compiled performances from three Carnegie Hall shows earlier that year. This represented her debut recording for the Dutch Philips Records label and exemplified the increasingly political direction of her music during this era.
Lyrics ↗What the lyrics are about
The song addresses the experience of being Black in America during 1963.
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