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.

Then the iconic national park ranger begins singing along to lyrics inspired by the turbulence of the Civil Rights era ... In 1964, she composed the song “Sign My Name to Freedom,” in honor of Susan ...

There were sit-ins against segregated seating at restaurants; freedom rides to desegregate ... Peters tells the stories of the songs behind the civil rights movement.

Lenny Kravitz's family had been involved in the Civil Rights Movement, so it was only fitting he should lend his musical ...

Many Civil Rights Movement leaders were young and gravitated toward ... The final pages of the Citizenship Workbook were “Freedom Songs To Sing.” Songs included were: We Shall Overcome, Oh, Freedom, ...

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 ...

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.

Many figures from the Civil Rights Movement did very admirable things, but he became this icon that was partly, of course, appreciation of his heroism at Selma and the Freedom Rides and so on ...

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 ...