This week, a discussion on women who were artists and writers during the civil rights era.

Simone was horrified by the 16th Street Baptist church bombing of September 1963 in Birmingham, Alabama,

which resulted in the deaths of four girls at choir practice, followed soon after by the murder of civil rights activist Medgar Evers in 1964 in Jackson, Mississippi, all of which prompted Simone to write her important call to action, a song about Mississippi and Alabama and the rest of the South, Mississippi Goddam, which picked up on some of Martin Luther King's themes in his 1963 letter for Birmingham jail.

Hear more with St. Joseph's University Professor Catherine Sibley, after this.

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Thank you so much for joining my class today at St. Joseph's University.

Today, we're going to explore five women who use their writing and singing to create a better future for black people in our country.

Polly Murray, Billy Holliday, Lorraine Hansberry, Nina Simone, and Anne Moody.

Why choose these five women, you may ask?

As writers, their work highlights a significant element of the civil rights movement.

And it also broadens the more well-known narrative on the key participants from this time.

Some of these women participated in sit-ins and other actions, to be sure,

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