Eunice Kathleen Waymon, popularly known as Nina Simone, was a famous jazz, blues, classical, folk, R&B, and gospel songstress of the 1950’s and 1960’s. Nina Simone was also known for her contributions to the Civil Rights Movement as she was an activist who believed in the uplifting of Black people through music and lyrics. Simone wrote the songs “Mississippi Goddam”, “Four Women”, “Young, Gifted, and Black, “Why (The Love King is Dead)”, and “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood” as ways of expressing both concern and recognition of historic moments of Black people and their traumas. She used her voice to amplify the soul of Black people and their pain; she was in fact a vital voice of the Civil Rights Movement.