CIVIL
RIGHTS




CIVIL RIGHTS

CIVIL RIGHTS RELATED TOPICS

TOP 10 CIVIL RIGHTS
PROTEST SONGS OF ALL TIME


CIVIL RIGHTS LINKS



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CIVIL
RIGHTS




Personal liberties that belong to an individual, owing to
his or her status as a citizen or resident of a particular
country or community.



Civil Rights
http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Civil+Rights



Civil
Rights

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/civil-rights




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CIVIL
RIGHTS
RELAED
TOPICS




Civil rights (disambiguation)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_rights_(disambiguation)

Civil rights movement
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_rights_movement

Civil and political rights
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_and_political_rights

Legal rights
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_rights

Natural and legal rights
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_and_legal_rights

Civil law (legal system)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_law_(legal_system)



African-American
Civil Rights Movement
(1954–68)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_Civil_Rights_Movement_(1954%E2%80%9368)




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TOP 10
CIVIL RIGHTS
PROTEST
SONGS
OF ALL
TIME




Martin Luther King knew that the Civil Rights movement needed
a soundtrack and that every hero needed theme music. The Civil
Rights movement incorporated jazz, folk, R&B and gospel to use
music that everybody could relate to and be inspired by to help
change America in the 1950s and 1960s.



We Shall Overcome

This song, popularized by folk singer Pete Seeger, was the unofficial
anthem for the Civil Rights movement. There was no question that this
song inspired both the short and long term goals of the era and still
inspires people today.



Morehouse College - We Shall Overcome
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aor6-DkzBJ0



1. Mississippi Goddam

Nina Simone wrote “Mississippi Goddam” after the murder of Medgar Evers
in Mississippi, who was assassinated by a Klansman, and the church bombing
in Birmingham, Alabama, which killed four black girls — both happened in
1963. The song is a live recording and Nina embodies the rage of the times.
It is the ultimate protest song. Brace yourself and watch Nina’s performance
below.


Nina Simone: Mississippi Goddam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ25-U3jNWM


2. Change Gonna Come

Sam Cooke’s song captured both the struggle, adversity and hope for
change that Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights movement brought.


Sam Cooke - A change is gonna come
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPr3yvkHYsE


3. Alabama

Coltrane did not need any lyrics to show the injustice, violence and
oppression that African Americans were facing in Alabama. Coltrane
wrote the song after hearing about the four girls who were killed in
a church bombing in Birmingham. He reportedly used Martin Luther King’s
cadence from the eulogy.


JOHN COLTRANE Alabama
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saN1BwlxJxA


4. People Get Ready

This song captured the optimism and excitement of the Civil Rights
movement as well as the faith that Martin Luther King brought to it.


Curtis Mayfield & The Impressions
People Get Ready

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdKEbnS1eBE&t=6s


5. Strange Fruit

Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit” captured the ugly essence of lynchings
racism and the opposition to the Civil Rights movement.


Billie Holiday - Strange fruit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnlTHvJBeP0


6. Lift Every Voice And Sing

The Negro National Anthem, written by James Weldon Johnson in 1900,
took on a new meaning during the Civil Rights movement when its
prophecy became truth.


LIFT EVERY VOICE AND SING by Ray Charles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QU8921j20e8


7. Times They Are A Changin

This song by Bob Dylan captured the spirit and essence of the change
and turmoil that surrounded the Civil Rights movement.


Bob Dylan, The Times They Are A-Changin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc5lyJDiyEI


8. Go Tell It On The Mountain

This song uses Biblical analogies and the story of Moses freeing the
Jews from Egypt as an analogy for Martin Luther King and the Civil
Rights movement. While several version of this song are used as
Christmas song about Jesus Christ’s birth, several others use the
phrase “Set my people free” instead of the common, “Jesus Christ Is
Born.”


Go tell it on the Mountain-
Peter Tosh (& The Wailers)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkUjtl3sH_k


9. We Shall Not Be Moved

This song represented the determination of those in the Civil Rights
movement in the face of government and social oppression, “like a tree
that stands by the water, we shall not be moved.”


Mavis Staple - We Shall Not Be Moved
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbOQhyuKifw


10. Oh Freedom

“Oh Freedom” harkened back to the slave days with phrase “Before I’ll
be a slave, I’ll be buried in my grave, and go home to my Lord and be
free,” inspiring the call for freedom in the Civil Rights movement.


Shirley Verrett, operatic star, sings "Oh Freedom"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKlgL4SkkqA


Top 10 Civil Rights Protest Songs Of All Time
http://newsone.com/1460645/top-10-civil-rights-protest-songs-of-all-time/



ACLU
American
Civil
Liberties
Union

https://www.aclu.org/




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CIVIL
RIGHTS
LINKS




AFRICAN AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS SONGS
http://cocojams.com/content/african-american-civil-rights-songs

The Albany Movement
http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-1057&sug=y

American Civil Liberties Union: ACLU History
http://www.aclu.org/aclu-history

Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
http://www.bcri.org/index.html

Black Leaders of the Civil Rights Movement
http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Feature.jsp?id=s-51&sug=y

Civil Liberties and Civil Rights
http://www.ushistory.org/gov/10.asp

Civil Rights
http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/civilrights/index.html

Civil Rights
http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/Civil_rights

Civil Rights in America: Connections to a Movement
http://civilrights.historybeat.com

Civil Rights: An Investigation
http://www.discoveryeducation.com/teachers/free-lesson-plans/civil-rights-an-investigation.cfm

Civil Rights as a People's Movement
http://www.american.edu/bgriff/H207web/civrights/CivilRightsOutline.htm

Civil Rights: Beyond Black & White
http://www.life.com/image/first/in-gallery/22816/civil-rights-beyond-black--white

Civil Rights Digital Library
http://crdl.usg.edu/voci/go/crdl/home

Civil rights during the Eisenhower Administration
http://eisenhower.archives.gov/research/online_documents/civil_rights_eisenhower_administration.html

The Civil Rights Era
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart9.html

Civil Rights in America: Connections to a Movement
http://civilrights.historybeat.com

Civil Rights in the United States
http://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/society/civil-rights-civil-rights-united-states.html

Civil Rights Laws
http://civilrights.findlaw.com/enforcing-your-civil-rights/civil-rights-laws.html



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Civil Rights Lesson Plans
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/themes/civil-rights/lessonplans.html

Civil Rights List
http://www.uhuh.com/control/list-civ.htm

Civil Rights Movement
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/civil-rights-movement

The Civil Rights Movement
http://www.discoveryeducation.com/teachers/free-lesson-plans/the-civil-rights-movement.cfm

Civil Rights Movement
http://www.history.com/topics/civil-rights-movement

Civil Rights Movement
http://global.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/119368/American-civil-rights-movement

Civil Rights Movement 1955–1965
http://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/civilrights-55-65

The Civil Rights Movement Through Film
http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1998/1/98.01.06.x.html

Civil Rights Movement Veterans
http://www.crmvet.org

Civil Rights Resource Guide
http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/civilrights/home.html

Civil Rights Songs
http://www.soulful-gospel-music-lyrics.com/CivilRightsSongs.html

Civil Rights Travel.com
http://www.civilrightstravel.com

The Committee on the Appeal for Human Rights and the Atlanta Student Movement
http://www.atlantastudentmovement.org

Essential Civil Rights Songs
http://folkmusic.about.com/od/toptens/tp/CivilRightsSong.htm

Famous Civil Rights Leaders
http://www.famousbirthdays.com/profession/civilrightsleader.html

Folk Music and the Civil Rights Movement
http://folkmusic.about.com/od/news/a/MLK_Folk.htm

The Georgia Movement
http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2716

The History of Amnesty International
http://www.amnesty.org/en/who-we-are/history

History and images of the sit-in movement
http://www.sitins.com/index.shtml



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Human Rights Watch: Our History
http://www.hrw.org/en/node/75134

Indivisible Guide
https://www.indivisibleguide.com/web/

Know Your Rights
http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/know.html

The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
http://www.civilrights.org/

List of Civil Rights in America
http://civilrightsmovement.net/list-civil-rights-america/

Martin Luther King, Jr.
and the Global Freedom Struggle

http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/encyclopedia/encyclopedia_contents/

Songs and the Civil Rights Movement
http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/encyclopedia/encyclopedia/enc_songs_and_the_civil_rights_movement/

Songs Of The Civil Rights Movement
http://www.npr.org/2010/01/18/99315652/songs-of-the-civil-rights-movement

U.S. Civil Rights in the 1960's
http://ted.coe.wayne.edu/sse/units/civil.htm

WDAS Radio's Enduring Impact on the Civil Rights Movement
http://www.wdashistory.org

What Was Jim Crow?
http://www.ferris.edu/news/jimcrow/what.htm



AFROPEDEA
http://www.afropedia.org



World Afropedia
http://worldafropedia.com/afropedia/Main_Page




African Indigenous Science and Knowledge Systems
http://www.africahistory.net/




Natives Wiki
http://tribalspedia.wikia.com/wiki/Natives_Wiki




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