Keedra Johnson
Civil Rights Music During And After
What is Civil Rights?
What is The Civil Rights Movement?
Timeframe
THE IMPACT
Through nonviolent protest, the civil rights movement of the 1950s and ’60s the pattern of public places being segregated by race in the South broke and the most important breakthrough was achieved in equal-rights legislation for African Americans.
After black activists had began to see their struggle as a freedom or liberation movement not just seeking civil rights reforms but instead confronting the enduring economic, political, and cultural consequences of racial oppression.
Black Lives Matter
Martin Luther King Jr.
Voices Are Weapons
Strange Fruit Billie Holiday Lyrics
Pastoral scene of the gallant South
The bulgin' eyes and the twisted mouth
Scent of magnolias sweet and fresh
Then the sudden smell of burnin' flesh
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Can't Turn Me Around The Roots Lyrics
Turn me 'round, turn me 'round
Ain't gonna let segregation turn me 'round
I'm gonna keep on a walkin', keep on a talkin'
Walkin' into freedom land
I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free Nina Simone Lyrics
All the love that's in my heart
Remove all the bars
That keep us apart
I wish you could know
What it means to be me
Then you'd see and agree
That every man should be free
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Be Free J cole Lyrics
While brothers from the hood shooting like this is TNT lately
And since all the ballers leaving college early
I turn on the TV and don't see no brothers with degrees lately
Are we all alone, fighting on our own
Please give me a chance, I don't wanna dance
Somethings got me down, I will stand my ground
Don't just stand around, don't just stand around
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The movement is a rhythm to us
Freedom is like religion to us
Justice is juxtaposition in' us
Justice for all just ain't specific enough
One son died, his spirit is revisiting us
True and livin' livin' in us, resistance is us
That's why Rosa sat on the bus
That's why we walk through Ferguson with our hands up
When it go down we woman and man up
They say, "Stay down", and we stand up
Shots, we on the ground, the camera panned up
King pointed to the mountain top and we ran up