including live albums "Nina Simone at Town Hall" and "The Amazing Nina Simone." “Mississippi Goddamn” is written and released in response to the assassination of Medgar Evers and the bombing ...

Nina Simone found success from the beginning of her recording career in 1959. With the release of Nina Simone at Town Hall (Colpix), her third album that year, she became a fixture on the downtown New ...

She changed her name into Nina ("little one") Simone ("from the French actress Simone Signoret ... became a hit and the nightclub singer became a star, performing at Town Hall, Carnegie Hall and the ...

Listen to Nina Simone: Her Art and Life in 33 Songs ... the racist laws of the Jim Crow South still held strong. Town Hall, where the album was recorded, was in midtown New York.