Feldstein, Ruth - How It Feels to Be Free

How It Feels to Be Free examines the role of black female entertainers in the Civil Rights movement.

---

CONTENTS

Introduction
1. The World Was On Fire: Making New York City Subcultures
2. Africa's Musical Ambassador: Miriam Makeba and the Voice of Africa in the United States
3. I Don't Trust You Anymore: Nina Simone and Black Cultural Nationalism
4. Hollywood Time: Black Women and Integration Narratives in the Late 1960s
5. Cicely Tyson and African American History: Popular Culture and Post-Civil Rights in the 1970s
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index