We shall overcome (originally publishing: New York : Oak Publications, 1963) -- Freedom is a constant struggle (originally publishing: New York : Oak Publications, 1968). We shall overcome. Sit-ins ...

Sixty years after the Civil Rights Movement, Albany’s Rutha Mae Harris, last original Freedom Singer, continues to inspire ...

Rutha Mae Harris, the final surviving member of the original Freedom Singers, continues her work in Albany, Georgia, six decades after the Civil Rights Movement. She remains dedicated to showing ...

Music played a key role in the civil rights movement. People marched to freedom songs while artists from Sam Cooke to Bob Dylan took the message to the masses in recordings as enduring as "A Change is ...

Award-winning roots musician and folklorist Chris Vallillo will bring his show, “Oh Freedom! Songs of the Civil Rights Movement,” to the Helen Plum Library on Monday, Aug. 18. The Civil Rights ...

Lessons in which students take part in musical activities while learning the history of South African "freedom songs." They look at correlations, both musical and historical, to the African American ...

In this powerful episode of The Cause: Conversations on Music, History, and Democracy, Dr. Reiland Rabaka explores the deep cultural, spiritual, and political roots of Civil Rights Music—from the ...

The voice of civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer greeted downtown record shop GRAILS’ soundscape Monday, and it wasn’t in the form of speeches, or interviews. It was through song. Hamer’s singing ...