An African American woman's voice, a child of Southwest Georgia, a voice raised in song, born in the struggle against racism in America during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s ...

The civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s was an important period of political action. It was a movement led by people from all over the country, all fighting racism in local ways ...

Aretha Franklin grew up in 1950s Detroit, surrounded from childhood by the now-famous faces of the civil rights movement. Her songs would become ... her contract in the 1960s included the clause ...

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.

The group, on the road celebrating its 50th anniversary, comes to SFJAZZ Center's Miner Auditorium this week for a four-day run. Performances are 7:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday.

Folk music also played an influential role in environmental political efforts and anti-war protests during the United States' engagement in Vietnam. Smithsonian Folkways Recordings playlists, Sounds ...

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1960s Civil Rights Protesters Who Staged Historic Sit ... Columbia wasn't where the first sit-in, an act of disobedience, happened. The movement started in Greensboro, North Carolina, and spread ...

The statement did not say where he died. Britain’s civil rights movement of the 1960s is less well known, and had less impact, than the epochal struggles in the American South that produced ...