Here she explains the importance of music in the Civil Rights Movement. One of the first things that's important when you think about freedom songs and the Civil Rights Movement is to not actually ...

Her songs would become their anthems. Her Baptist minister father was the organiser behind the 1963 Detroit Walk to Freedom ... of the civil rights campaign and the feminist movement.

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Morris had an expansive vision of freedom that went beyond his antislavery work. Like the activists leading the U.S. civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s, Morris’s activism was multifaceted.

How Johann Sebastian Bach and the Little Rock Nine inspired one of The Beatles’ biggest hits—and one of the most covered songs ... of civil rights activists calling themselves Freedom Riders ...

America in the 1950s… A land of great wealth…opportunity…freedom… But not for everyone. Because black people living in America at that time were often treated ...

The 1954 Brown v Topeka case was an important turning point in the civil rights movement, as it showed ... separate from white Americans, limit freedom and undermine the progress made during ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - The National Civil Rights Museum will give a posthumous tribute to four influential figures in civil, ...

After the enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and in anticipation of the passing of the Voter Rights Act in 1965, the focus of the Civil Rights movement started to shift from resisting the ...

become the personification of nonviolence in the Civil Rights movement. Despite being beaten and arrested time and again at sit-ins in Nashville, on the Freedom Rides and elsewhere, Lewis’s ...

The National Civil Rights Museum's Freedom Award recognizes individuals who have made "significant contributions" within the civil rights movement. It starts with a pre-award gala at 5:30 p.m. The ...