“Feldstein’s interest is in developing the stories of six black, female performers: Lena Horne, Miriam Makeba, Nina Simone, Abbey Lincoln, Diahann Carroll, and Cicely Tyson. The overall significance of these prominent women is that, because of the range of ways they were able to connect to audiences, they helped to create a new national imagination of blackness in general and of black femininity in particular. Her central argument that women entertainers should be considered as a significant part of the civil rights movement.”
Fiona I.B. Ngô on How It Feels to Be Free : Black Women Entertainers and the Civil Rights Movement
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