Starred Review: Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood

This insightful book is one of the few books to connect the resistance of the Harlem Renaissance with the 1960s fight for civil rights.

From Library Journal

★ Miller (English, North Carolina State Univ.; Origins of the Dream) studies the mutually beneficial connection between pianist, songwriter, and singer Nina Simone (1933–2003) and poet Langston Hughes (1901–67). Miller maintains that Hughes was Simone’s closest confidant, a relationship that formed an intergenerational bond, linked different artistic genres, and influenced Stokely Carmichael’s popularization of the phrase “Black Power” in 1966.

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