- Collection:
- History Now; American History Online: The Civil Rights Movement
- Title:
- History now; Interactive history : Songs of the civil rights movement
- Date of Original:
- 1900/1990
- Subject:
- Music--United States
Music--Southern States
Protest songs--United States
Protest songs--Southern States
Songs--United States
Songs--Southern States
Singers--United States
Singers--Southern States
Singing--United States
Singing--Southern States
African Americans--Music
African Americans--Songs and music
Music, Influence of--United States
Music, Influence of--Southern States
Ain't gonna let nobody turn me around (Song)
This little light of mine (Song)
Keep your eyes on the prize (Song)
We shall not be moved (Song)
African Americans--Civil rights
African Americans--Civil rights--Southern States
African American civil rights workers
African American civil rights workers--Southern States
African American political activists
African American political activists--Southern States
African Americans--Politics and government
African Americans--Education
African Americans--Education--Southern States
Segregation--United States
Segregation--Southern States
Race relations--History--20th century
United States--Race relations--History--20th century
Southern States--Race relations--History--20th century
United States--Politics and government--20th century
Southern States--Politics and government--20th century
United States--History--20th century
Southern States--History--20th century
Civil rights--United States
Civil rights--Southern States
Civil rights movements--United States
Civil rights movements--Southern States
Civil rights workers--United States
Civil rights workers--Southern States - Location:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
United States, Southern States, 33.346678, -84.119434 - Medium:
- sound recordings
sheet music
black-and-white photographs
text - Type:
- Text
- Description:
- Included in Issue 8, June 2006, of the quarterly journal, History Now; American History Online.
"Songs were an integral part of the American civil rights movement. Singing inspired large groups of people at church meetings, street demonstrations, and marches. Many of the songs were traditional hymns and spirituals with lyrics that had several layers of meaning and expressed a desire for freedom. Other hymns and spirituals were given new words to emphasize the struggle for more specific issues such as voting rights. Each of the six songs in this jukebox played an important role in the civil rights movement and reflects the defiant spirit of the time."
The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata. - Metadata URL:
- https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-now/2006-06/civil-rights-movement
- Language:
- eng
- Rights Holder:
- For the Gilder Lehrman Collection all rights and Reproductions inquires and request contact: Reference@GilderLehrman.org
- Original Collection:
- History now; American history online : The Civil Rights movement (Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History)
- Contributing Institution:
- Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
- Rights: