now, when you listen to nina simone doing "mississippi god damn," you think back to the disillusionmenthe end of coming of age in mississippi, and i think you can understand simone's anger which, of course, she's responding to the assassination of medgar evers and -- ♪ ♪ everybody knows about mississippi god damn ♪ ♪ >> the song of is simone's response to the murder of civil rights workers, the bombing of the 16th street baptist church in birmingham. ♪ ♪ they try to say it's a communist block ♪ ♪ but all i want is equality for my sister, my brother, my people and me ♪ ♪ my people and me ♪ you lied to me all these years ♪ ♪ you told me to wash and clean my ears and talk real fine just like a lady ♪ ♪ and you stopped calling me sister sadie ♪ ♪ my country is full of lies ♪ we're all gonna die ♪ i don't trust nobody anymore ♪ they keep on saying go slow ♪ yeah, that's what they say, go slow ♪ ♪ well that's just the trouble ♪ desegregation, go slow ♪ matched with anticipation, unification ♪ ♪ go slow ♪ i don't see it ♪ i don't feel it ♪ i don't know i don't know ♪ you don't have to live nex

impresario harry belafonte, and she worked with some prominent african-american musicians like nina simone for the duration of their careers. now, i really want you to -- did you take a look at this one, this -- this particular image? it's a really striking image that shows how black music was a lightning rod for segregationists, and it became a real target for those who in the white south were behind the whole movement of massive resistance to desegregation. it's from the new orleans citizens council, and you know about the white citizens council that were formed throughout the south in response to the brown decision and court-ordered desegregation, and it says help save the youth of america. we know which youth they are talking about. don't buy negro records. if you don't want to serve negroes in your place of business, then do not have negro records on your jukebox or listen to negro records on the radio. don't let your children buy or listen to those negro records, and here you have chuck barry who would have been one of those disreputable black musicians from the standpoint of segrega