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39933
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This article features 12 women from North Carolina being: Virginia Dare; Cornelia Phillips Spencer; Dolly Payne Madison; Charlotte Hawkins Brown; Marie Watters Coleman; Katie G. Dorsett; Nina Simone; Sarah Parker; Mary Elizabeth Alexander Hanford Dole; Patricia 'Pat' Timmons-Goodson; Beverly Marlene Moore Perdue; Jennifer Pharr Davis
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North Carolina's Eastern Living Magazine
(NoCar F 252.3 N82), Vol. 11 Issue No. 2, March 2019,
p58-61, il
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Dare, Virginia, b. 1587-?; Spencer, Cornelia Phillips, 1825-1908; Madison, Dolly Payne Todd, 1768-1849; Coleman, Marie Watters (b. 1922); Brown, Charlotte Hawkins, 1883-1961; Dorsett, Katie G. (b. 1932); Simone, Nina, 1933-2003; Dole, Elizabeth Hanford, 1936-; Parker, Sarah (Supreme Court Justice); Perdue, Beverly Marlene Moore; Timmons-Goodson, Patricia; Davis, Jennifer Pharr (b. 1985)
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9417
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Blackburn recounts the life of Nina Simone, who was born in Tryon and died in the south of France. Her career as a singer and composer of jazz and popular music spanned fifty years. Her music embraced all styles: jazz, folk, classical, pop, gospel, blues, Broadway, rock, and opera and was recorded in over fifty albums.
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20422
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Since Lonnie Davis, a New Orleans expat and accomplished jazz flutist moved to Charlotte seven years ago, she has quietly invigorated the area's jazz community through the work of her nonprofit, the Jazz Arts Initative, which highlights the jazz masters from the Carolinas: Coltrane, Gillespie, and Simone to name a few.
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44016
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Known at the "High Priestess of Soul", Simone, originally from Tryon graduated from the Allen School for Girls in Asheville. She enjoyed a prolific career as a celebrated jazz musician and civil rights activist. In 2017, her childhood home in Tryon was purchased by a group of New York Black artists for restoration.
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