Nina Simone was a Civil Rights activist who marched with MLK.
 On her debut album for Philips, Nina Simone in Concert (1964), for the first time she addressed racial inequality in the United States in the song "Mississippi Goddam"
 In 1969, she performed at the Harlem Cultural Festival in Harlem's Mount Morris Park, which was recorded in Questlove's 2021 documentary Summer of Soul

