 | 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... 28 KB (3,821 words) - 01:24, 10 January 2024 |
 | Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated Southern United States in 1961 and subsequent years to challenge... 120 KB (10,553 words) - 20:47, 6 April 2024 |
 | The Staple Singers were an American gospel, soul, and R&B singing group. Roebuck "Pops" Staples (December 28, 1914 – December 19, 2000), the patriarch... 23 KB (1,765 words) - 05:26, 19 March 2024 |
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... 5 KB (710 words) - 20:10, 13 March 2023 |
 | Freedom Summer, also known as the Freedom Summer Project or the Mississippi Summer Project, was a volunteer campaign in the United States launched in... 38 KB (4,420 words) - 03:50, 3 March 2024 |
 | 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... 101 KB (12,294 words) - 19:22, 14 April 2024 |
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... 9 KB (1,046 words) - 23:06, 13 January 2024 |
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... 12 KB (1,374 words) - 21:04, 28 October 2023 |
 | 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... 84 KB (8,992 words) - 02:12, 23 April 2024 |
 | 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... 22 KB (2,360 words) - 23:30, 19 April 2024 |
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... 14 KB (1,675 words) - 20:07, 14 March 2024 |
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... 48 KB (6,281 words) - 07:59, 2 February 2024 |
 | Medgar Evers (category 1963 murders in the United States) Jones and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Freedom Singers recorded a version of the latter song. Wadada Leo Smith's album Ten Freedom Summers... 49 KB (4,793 words) - 00:09, 23 April 2024 |
 | 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... 54 KB (5,537 words) - 02:44, 25 January 2024 |
 | group, at the Cultural Center of the Philippines. January 2015: The Madrigal Singers led thousands of singers in the celebrations during the Pastoral and... 15 KB (1,360 words) - 03:56, 16 October 2023 |
 | 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... 103 KB (13,747 words) - 08:51, 18 April 2024 |
The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), also referred to simply as the Freedom Democratic Party, was an American political party that existed... 27 KB (3,354 words) - 06:34, 31 January 2024 |
 | Letter from Birmingham Jail (redirect from The Letter from the Birmingham Jail) wrote that the black community was left with "no alternative". "We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor;... 28 KB (3,287 words) - 10:02, 4 April 2024 |
Freedom Schools were temporary, alternative, and free schools for African Americans mostly in the South. They were originally part of a nationwide effort... 23 KB (2,734 words) - 07:28, 18 December 2023 |
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... 14 KB (1,363 words) - 21:06, 9 July 2023 |
Matthew Jones (activist) (category American folk singers) folk singer/songwriter known for being a field secretary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and part of their The Freedom Singers in the 1960s... 6 KB (619 words) - 15:34, 8 April 2024 |
"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... 7 KB (581 words) - 12:27, 26 November 2023 |
against Barry Goldwater in the 1964 presidential election. This is complicated by the Freedom Summer movement and pulls between the northern liberal wing and... 26 KB (1,759 words) - 20:53, 23 March 2024 |
"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... 4 KB (470 words) - 02:06, 30 November 2022 |
 | Daybreak of Freedom: The Montgomery Bus Boycott (Excerpt) "Browder v. Gayle: The Women Before Rosa Parks", Tolerance Vanessa de la Torre, "In The Shadow of... 38 KB (4,342 words) - 05:04, 12 April 2024 |
 | 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... 101 KB (9,516 words) - 18:02, 15 April 2024 |
 | 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... 72 KB (8,354 words) - 02:23, 16 April 2024 |
 | 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... 21 KB (1,885 words) - 22:55, 5 December 2023 |
 | W. E. B. Du Bois (1903). The Souls of Black Folk. A. C. McClurg, Chicago.Sorrow Songs Sunset Four Jubilee Singers (singers), Good Time Music (Publisher)... 30 KB (3,366 words) - 23:31, 20 December 2023 |
 | Cordell Reagon (category Freedom Riders) American singer and activist. He was the founding member of The Freedom Singers of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), a leader of the Albany... 5 KB (509 words) - 23:36, 19 April 2024 |