The Freedom Singers originated as a quartet formed in 1962 at Albany State College in Albany, Georgia. After folk singer Pete Seeger witnessed the power...
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Freedom Highway is a 1965 album by The Staple Singers (Epic LN24163/ BN26163). The title song was written for the 1965 Selma to Montgomery march for voting...
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The Staple Singers were an American gospel, soul, and R&B singing group. Roebuck "Pops" Staples (December 28, 1914 – December 19, 2000), the patriarch...
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Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated Southern United States in 1961 and subsequent years to challenge...
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Freedom Summer, also known as the Freedom Summer Project or the Mississippi Summer Project, was a volunteer campaign in the United States launched in...
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Newport Folk Festival (redirect from The Newport Folk Festival)
named the Freedom Singers. And in 1962, Pete and Toshi Seeger assisted the Freedom Singers in organizing a nationwide collegiate tour. As a result, the civil...
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The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, also known as simply the March on Washington or the Great March on Washington, was held in Washington, D...
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chronicles the victories of the Civil Rights Movement, "If You Miss Me from the Back of the Bus", written by Charles Neblett of The Freedom Singers, was sung...
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Charles Neblett (category Freedom Riders)
"SNCC Freedom Singers 1962–1966". BlackPast.org. 9 March 2014. Retrieved November 15, 2015. Paige Rose, Leslie. (2007). The Freedom Singers of the civil...
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Medgar Evers (category Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients)
Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Freedom Singers recorded a version of the latter song. Wadada Leo Smith's album Ten Freedom Summers contains a track called...
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Bernice Johnson Reagon (category 20th-century American women singers)
activist, who in the early 1960s was a founding member of the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee's (SNCC) Freedom Singers in the Albany Movement...
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Freedom Schools were temporary, alternative, and free schools for African Americans mostly in the South. They were originally part of a nationwide effort...
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This Little Light of Mine (category The Kingston Trio songs)
especially during the Civil Right Movement in the 1960's. Rutha Mae Harris, one of the four original freedom singers from Georgia, said the song "helped steady...
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We Shall Overcome (category Songs about freedom)
and the 1988 version by Pete Seeger sung at a reunion concert with Pete and the Freedom Singers on the anthology, Sing for Freedom, recorded in the field...
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I Have a Dream (redirect from They will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character)
the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963. In the speech, King called for civil and economic rights and an end to racism in the...
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songs were carried across the country by Freedom Riders, and many of these became Civil Rights anthems. Many soul singers of the period, such as Sam Cooke...
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The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), also referred to simply as the Freedom Democratic Party, was an American political party that existed...
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McCree Harris (section The Albany Movement)
Emory was a founding member of a chapter of male Freedom Singers in the early 1960s. Freedom Singers originated in an African American congregation, Mt. Zion...
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against Barry Goldwater in the 1964 presidential election. This is complicated by the Freedom Summer movement and pulls between the northern liberal wing and...
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Fariña Richard Fariña Jackson C. Frank The Freedom Singers Gale Garnett Gateway Singers Bob Gibson Cynthia Gooding The Greenbriar Boys David Grisman Stefan...
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I Shall Not Be Moved (category Songs of the civil rights movement)
Showcase (1956) The Million Dollar Quartet (Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash) (1956) The Freedom Singers at the March on Washington...
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Harry Belafonte (category 20th-century American male singers)
Retrieved April 25, 2023. Cast (Harry Belafonte and the Belafonte Singers; Johnny Carson; Martha Raye). The Steve Allen Show Season 4 Episode 9. "Tonight with...
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Gloria Jones (redirect from Gloria Jones & The Zodiac Singers)
Billy Preston the successful gospel group the COGIC Singers, with whom she recorded the album It's a Blessing. Although she remained with the group for some...
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others are attacked by members of the Ku Klux Klan while on a freedom ride to Birmingham, Alabama. Louis participates in the 1963 Birmingham Children's Crusade...
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Murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner (redirect from Freedom Summer Murders)
The murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner, also known as the Freedom Summer murders, the Mississippi civil rights workers' murders, or the Mississippi...
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Kumbaya (category Songs of the civil rights movement)
Pt. 1 (1962)". AllMusic. Netaktion, LLC. Retrieved January 31, 2021. "Freedom Songs: Selma, Alabama". Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. Smithsonian Institution...
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Loving v. Virginia (category Interracial marriage in the United States)
also deprive the Lovings of liberty without due process of law in violation of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The freedom to marry has...
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Kathleen Cleaver (category Members of the Black Panther Party)
had been murdered by white supremacists. The shift of the movement was characterized by the change from "Freedom Now" to "Black Power." Kathleen was in...
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Freedom Highway may refer to: Freedom Highway (Rhiannon Giddens album), a 2017 album Freedom Highway (The Staple Singers album), a 1965 album Freedom...
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"The Freedom Singers" from Boston Church of Christ in 1988. A cover by The Stanley Brothers can be heard on Rick Grimes' (Andrew Lincoln) radio at the...
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