Civil
Rights
Singing For Freedom, mid 1960s
Photographer: Ken Thompson
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As
the Movement spread from city to city and moved through
time, freedom songs emerged to fit every situation and
to sustain its participants through increasingly dangerous
confrontations.
We
helped organize a series of workshops to bring together
the songleaders and singers of the Movement to share
their songs.
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We
also collected the growing repertoire on albums and
in two songbooks.
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Confrontation with Police
Greenwood, Alabama, 1965
Photographer: Bob Fitch
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Freedom School
Mississippi, 1964
Photographer: Ken Thompson
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Not
only were the freedom songs important in sustaining
the Movement in the South, they were heard across the
country and helped tell the story of what was happening
which would eventually change the country.
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The
SNCC Freedom Singers, Rutha Harris, Cordell Reagon, Bernice
Johnson Reagon and Chuck Neblett traveled the country
singing on college campuses, in churches and community
centers, raising funds and awareness.
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We Shall Overcome:
Singing After a Church Bombing
Mississippi, early 1960s
Photographer: Danny Lyon
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The SNCC Freedom Singers
w/ the Carawans
Newport, Rhode Island, 1963
Photographer: Jim Marshall
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Many
of the freedom songs were adapted for other movements
and are still heard today.
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