As well as being an incredible songwriter and performer, Nina Simone was a tireless activist within the civil rights movement, which often influenced her music.

An African American woman's voice, a child of Southwest Georgia, a voice raised in song, born in the struggle against racism in America during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s ...

These songs and chants of freedom, sung by protestors, activists, and civil rights leaders during the 1950s and 1960s, have now been taken up anew in "Soundtrack" by such contemporary performers ...

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings playlists, Sounds of the Civil Rights Movement and Peace Songs of the 1960s, reveal the vibrancy of the genre.

A civil rights champion and musical pariah, Nina Simone wrote some of the greatest songs of an entire generation, tackling subjects like racism and entrapment.

But in the 1960s things were changing for him ... Actor Clarke Peters tells the stories of the songs behind the civil rights movement.

Her songs would become their ... She told Elle her contract in the 1960s included the clause that she would never perform for a segregated audience. Civil rights activist Reverend Jesse Jackson ...

In the 1960s, there were plenty of influences ... she released "Mississippi Goddam" in 1964—it was her first civil rights song, by her own admission, and despite its highly controversial ...

On the evening of Oct. 10, Doudna Fine Arts Center hosted Oh Freedom! Songs of the Civil Rights Movement, a concert dedicated ...

Taylor Swift drew inspiration from Ethel Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy’s romance for one of her dreamiest songs. Ethel died ...

After speaking with his mom, Breland, who grew up in New Jersey, decided to visit Selma, Alabama, where many of his older ...

There, she developed two major projects: Wade in the Water: African American Sacred Music Traditions, a radio series, and Voices of the Civil Rights Movement: Black American Freedom Songs ...