Roebuck “Pops” Staples wrote the 1965 blues “Why Am I Treated So Bad” in response to the ongoing struggle for civil rights in the United States and in particularly for The Little Rock Nine - a group of Black students enrolled at Little Rock Central High School in 1957 whom were prevented from integrating the school by Orval Faubus, the governor of Arkansas and the inspiration for Charles Mingus’ 1959 composition “Fables of Faubus.”

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