12. Nina’s involvement in the Civil Rights movement harmed her career
With all her protest songs, involvement in Civil Rights protest, and an attempt to incite a riot in Harlem in 1969 (‘Are you ready to smash white things, to burn buildings, are you ready? Are you ready to build black things?’) concert promoters and venues started seeing Nina as a dangerous person to book for shows. She was also positively loathed by the far right and much of the South, and so when the Civil Rights movement ended with its leaders dying, incarcerated, and (according to Nina) selling out, and the liberals’ focus switched to Vietnam, Nina was left high-and-dry.
