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Voices of the Civil Rights Movement: Black American Freedom Songs 1960-1966

Various Artists
Voices of the Civil Rights Movement: Black American Freedom Songs 1960-1966
This double-CD reissue documents a central aspect of the cultural environment of the Civil Rights Movement, acknowledging songs as the language that focused people's energy. These 43 tracks are a series of musical images, of a people in conversation about their determination to be free. Many of the songs were recorded live in mass meetings held in churches, where people from different life experiences, predominantly black, with a few white supporters, came together in a common struggle. These freedom songs draw from spirituals, gospel, rhythm and blues, football chants, blues and calypso forms. The enclosed booklet written by Bernice Johnson Reagon provides rare historic photographs along with the powerful story of African American musical culture and its role in the Civil Rights Movement. "The music of the spirit with the history of the flesh." — New York Daily News

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Track Listing

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The Freedom Singers
01:57  
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102
Betty Fikes
04:17
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103
Betty Fikes
03:03
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104
Mass meeting participants, Hattiesburg, MS
02:49
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105
Willie Peacock
02:10
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106
Willie Peacock
06:29
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107
Mass meeting participants, Hattiesburg, MS
00:25
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108
Hollis Watkins
03:08
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109
Amanda Bowens Perdew and Virginia Davis
01:50
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110
Mass meeting participants, Danville, VA
01:13
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111
Rev. Lawrence Campbell
06:35
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112
Mass meeting participants, Danville, VA
03:24
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113
Fannie Lou Hamer
03:03
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114
Fannie Lou Hamer
02:32
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115
Willie Peacock
05:25
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116
Fannie Lou Hamer
01:38
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117
Sam Block
03:33
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118
Sam Block
04:36
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119
Mabel Hillary
03:30
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120
Carlton Reese
02:31
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121
Mass meeting participants, Hattiesburg, MS
03:03
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201
SNCC Freedom Singers
03:30  
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202
SNCC Freedom Singers
02:11  
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203
CORE Freedom Singers
02:05
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204
CORE Freedom Singers
03:49
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205
SNCC Freedom Singers
01:57
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206
SNCC Freedom Singers
02:31  
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207
Bernice Johnson Reagon
03:54
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208
The Freedom Singers
02:33  
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209
The Integration Grooves
02:28
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210
The Freedom Singers
02:15
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211
Bertha Gober
03:21
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212
The Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights Choir
02:28
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213
The Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights Choir
03:38
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214
Cleo Kennedy
09:15
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215
SNCC Freedom Singers
03:38
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216
SNCC Freedom Singers
02:15  
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217
Jimmy Collier and the Movement Singers
03:08
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218
SNCC Freedom Singers
02:36
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219
SNCC Freedom Singers
04:32  
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220
Cordell Reagon
01:09
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221
SNCC Freedom Singers
02:50  
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222
SNCC Freedom Singers
03:20