• "Oh, Freedom" is a post-Civil War African-American freedom song. It is often associated with the Civil Rights Movement, with Odetta, who recorded it as...
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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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    Highway to Freedom". The Wilson Quarterly. 30 (2): 103–104. ISSN 0363-3276. JSTOR 40261085. Martin, Michael T. (2011). ""Buses Are a Comin'. Oh Yeah!": Stanley...
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    AME preacher. We talked. Every now and then, people on the bus sang 'Oh Freedom' and 'We Shall Overcome,' but for the most part there wasn't a whole bunch...
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    slavery ("Song of the Abolitionist" "No More Auction Block for Me", "Oh Freedom", and "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child", among others); and women's...
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    segregation bills. Claiming that Little Rock had to assert their rights and freedom against the federal decision, in September 1958, Faubus signed acts that...
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    Ruby Bridges Hall," Online NewsHour, February 18, 1997 Susannah Abbey. Freedom Hero: Ruby Bridges Ellen Blue, St. Mark's and the Social Gospel: Methodist...
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    Prize" "Oh, Freedom" "This Little Light of Mine" "We Shall Not Be Moved" "We Shall Overcome" "Woke Up This Morning (With My Mind Stayed On Freedom)" Influences...
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    reasons. Her a cappella performance of the traditional spiritual "Oh Freedom" retitled "Freedom Song" on the original Soul to Soul LP soundtrack is only available...
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    Freedom Township is one of the eighteen townships of Portage County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census found 2,649 people in the township. Located...
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    their enslavement. Fard stated that African Americans could regain their freedoms through self-independence and cultivation of their own culture and civilization...
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    minister Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963. In the speech, King called for civil and economic rights...
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    call and the fight for freedom, dignity and justice not just for his people but all people. Evers was identified as a Freedom hero by The My Hero Project...
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  • director living in Memphis, Tennessee. He is best known for his documentary Oh Freedom After While, a story of the Missouri sharecropper strike of 1939. Ross...
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  • citizens on account of race. There can be no doubt that restricting the freedom to marry solely because of racial classifications violates the central...
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    televised concert, were released in 1997 by Island Records. The Long Road to Freedom: An Anthology of Black Music, a huge multi-artist project recorded by RCA...
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    Pt. 1 (1962)". AllMusic. Netaktion, LLC. Retrieved January 31, 2021. "Freedom Songs: Selma, Alabama". Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. Smithsonian Institution...
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    1939 Missouri Sharecroppers' Strike, were documented in the newsreel Oh Freedom After While. The plight of a sharecropper was addressed in the song Sharecropper's...
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    wouldn't have been around here in 1961, when we decided to take a ride for freedom and ended segregation in interstate travel. King repeated the phrase "If...
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  • hand accounts from the black freedom struggle (New York:Penguin Books, 1991). ISBN 0-14-015403-5 Freedman, Russell, "Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery...
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    registration drives for black people across the south. On May 20, 1961, the Freedom Riders stopped in Montgomery while on their way from Washington, D.C. to...
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  • Louis and others are attacked by members of the Ku Klux Klan while on a freedom ride to Birmingham, Alabama. Louis participates in the 1963 Birmingham...
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  • reinforce their shared identity and communicate their demands for equity. Freedom Singing, a congressional style of singing that often uses church hymns...
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  • "we shall enter upon an era of constitutional law, when the rights of freedom and American citizenship cannot receive from the nation that efficient...
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    was left with "no alternative". "We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the...
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    Thurgood Marshall (category Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients)
    the greatest leaders in the history of the African-American struggle for freedom and equality".: 218  A 1999 survey of black political scientists listed...
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    It Burn" for the Birds Eye Riddim compilations. In 2012, her single, "Oh Freedom" for the Soundtrack for a Revolution was released on January 3, 2012....
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  • The Court's opinion reflected the jurisprudence of property rights and freedom of contract as embodied in the earlier precedent it established in Lochner...
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    Rosa Parks (category Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients)
    honored her as "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement". Parks became an NAACP activist in 1943, participating in several...
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    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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