Aretha Franklin grew up in 1950s Detroit, surrounded from childhood by the now-famous faces of the civil rights movement. Her songs would become their anthems. Her Baptist minister father was the ...

If you are talking about the Civil Rights Movement and our practice ... concert spirituals; and third, songs from the top 40 rhythm and blues charts and new songs written to tell the story about ...

To mark Soul Music's exploration of Songs of the Civil Rights Movement and Sam Cooke's A Change Is Gonna Come, BBC 6 Music's Craig Charles picks ten of his favourite pivotal protest songs.

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 ...

From sorrowful mourning to polemical rage, these songs deal with the death of the civil-rights icon in moving ... nicked off Martin Luther King’s famous speech.” Freddie Mercury later added ...

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

Let's get into the songs ... "Civil War." This time it's the vaguely Talking Heads-ish 1979 single "Dream Baby Dream." (Perhaps you know the Bruce Springsteen cover, which might be more famous ...

The songs of freedom grew louder, as one era of oppression ended and another began, especially here in the South. The killing of a 14-year-old in Money, Mississippi galvanized the civil rights ...