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 ...

Celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day, with an hour of gospel music from artists who performed on the Avenue, as we explore ...

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.

The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once described the freedom songs of the civil rights movement as “ the soul of the movement.” Like the members of the civil rights movement, the anti-war ...

The 'Freedom Movement' for civil rights was a turning point in history - Martin Luther King Jr said there was one genre of music essential to powering it.

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 ...

Danny Glover produced and stars in this tale of a black teen who witnesses the first stirrings of the civil-rights movement in his Mississippi home town, then defies his father by joining in ...