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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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"South Africa, Free At Last: The Freedom Songs of South Africa and the Civil Rights Movement in America"
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Track Listing

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Freedom Medley: Freedom Chant / Oh Freedom / This Little Light of Mine The Freedom Singers 01:57  
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This Little Light of Mine Betty Fikes 04:17
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If You Miss Me from the Back of the Bus Betty Fikes 03:03
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Lord Hold My Hand While I Run This Race Mass meeting participants, Hattiesburg, MS 02:49
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Get on Board Children Willie Peacock 02:10
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Calypso Freedom Willie Peacock 06:29
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Freedom Now Chant Mass meeting participants, Hattiesburg, MS 00:25
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Oh Freedom Hollis Watkins 03:08
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Ain't Scared of Nobody Amanda Bowens Perdew and Virginia Davis 01:50
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Leaning on the Everlasting Arms Mass meeting participants, Danville, VA 01:13
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Sermon Rev. Lawrence Campbell 06:35
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We are Soldiers in the Army Mass meeting participants, Danville, VA 03:24
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Go Tell It on the Mountain Fannie Lou Hamer 03:03
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Wade in the Water Fannie Lou Hamer 02:32
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Come Bah Yah Willie Peacock 05:25
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Walk with Me Lord Fannie Lou Hamer 01:38
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Jesus on the Mainline Sam Block 03:33
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Freedom Train Sam Block 04:36
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Don’t You Think It’s about Time That We All Be Free Mabel Hillary 03:30
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We're Marching on to Freedom Land Carlton Reese 02:31
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We Shall Overcome (1) Mass meeting participants, Hattiesburg, MS 03:03
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We'll Never Turn Back SNCC Freedom Singers 03:30  
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We Shall Not Be Moved SNCC Freedom Singers 02:11  
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Certainly, Lord CORE Freedom Singers 02:05
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Get Your Rights, Jack CORE Freedom Singers 03:49
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Which Side are You On? SNCC Freedom Singers 01:57
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Woke Up This Morning with My Mind on Freedom SNCC Freedom Singers 02:31  
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Been in the Storm So Long Bernice Johnson Reagon 03:54
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Dog, Dog The Freedom Singers 02:33  
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The A & P Song The Integration Grooves 02:28
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Oh Pritchett, Oh Kelly The Freedom Singers 02:15
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I Told Jesus Bertha Gober 03:21
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99 1/2 Won't Do The Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights Choir 02:28
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I'm on My Way The Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights Choir 03:38
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City Called Heaven Cleo Kennedy 09:15
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In the Mississippi River SNCC Freedom Singers 03:38
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Ain' Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me 'Round SNCC Freedom Singers 02:15  
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Will the Circle Be Unbroken Jimmy Collier and the Movement Singers 03:08
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Governor Wallace SNCC Freedom Singers 02:36
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Ballad of Medgar Evers SNCC Freedom Singers 04:32  
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Uncle Tom's Prayer Cordell Reagon 01:09
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Oginga Odinga SNCC Freedom Singers 02:50  
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We Shall Overcome (2) SNCC Freedom Singers 03:20