LibGuides: Protest Music: Music & Civil Rights

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Music
From: Civil Rights in the United States, editors Waldo E. Martin, Jr. and Patricia Sullivan, 2000. Accessed via Gale in Context : U.S. History
Music in the Civil Rights Movement
Library of Congress Digital Collections Civil Rights History Project Articles and Essays
25 of the greatest civil rights protest songs : Powerful songs from more than a century of fight
By Andrew Murphy in What Hi-Fi? , June 11, 2020.
“People Get Ready”: Music and the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s
By Brian Ward in AP US History Study Guide, Period 8: 1945-1980. The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Voices of Struggle: The Civil Rights movement, 1945 to 1965
in Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, Explore - Soundscapes.
Music in the Civil Rights Movement
by Bernice Johnson Reagon, Interview by Maria Daniels, WGBH Boston, July 2006. PBS : American Experience: Eyes on the Prize.
Tyler Childers Pushes Back On Southern Values And Our 'Long, Violent History'
By Ann Powers September 18, 2020, NPR