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Acceptance of homosexuality in the US by state (lemmy.world)
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[–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Check out Nina Simone's song, "Mississippi Goddam"

Here's Wikipedia too

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    The song captures Simone's response to the racially motivated murders of Emmett Till and Medgar Evers in Mississippi, and the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four black children.

    Ah, of course, good ol American history.

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