Four Women by Nina Simone

The jazz vocalist, composer, pianist, and arranger Nina Simone's song "Four Women" was included on the album Wild Is the Wind in 1966. There are four African American women whose stories are told. The four characters each stand in for a societal stereotype of African Americans. The song, in the words of Thulani Davis of The Village Voice, was "an instantly accessible analysis of the damning legacy of slavery, that made iconographic the real women we knew and would become." .