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Civil Rights Songs - Sing for Freedom-Civil Rights Movement / Various

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Format: CD
Catalog: 40032
Rel. Date: 07/13/1992
UPC: 093074003220

Sing for Freedom-Civil Rights Movement / Various
Artist: Civil Rights Songs
Format: CD
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1. We Are Soldiers in the Army Now - Minnie Hendrick/Gladys Burnett
2. Keep Your Hands on the Plow - Minnie Hendrick/Gladys Burnette Ca
3. This Little Light - Minnie Hendrick/Gladys Burnette Carter/Mary
4. You Better Leave Segregation Alone - Nashville Quartet From Amer
5. Your Dog Loves My Dog - Nashville Quartet From American Baptist
6. Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around - Cordell Hull Reagon/Char
7. I Woke Up This Morning With My Mind on Freedom - Rev. Ben Gay/SN
8. Keep Your Eyes on the Prize - Cordell Hull Reagon/SNCC Freedom S
9. Oh Pritchett, Oh Kelly - SNCC Freedom Singers/Jamie Culbreath/Ch
10. Up Above My Head - Betty Fikes
11. This Little Light - Betty Fikes/Rutha Mae Fikes/Rutha Harris
12. Brown Baby - Cordell Hull Reagon
13. Which Side Are You On? - Cordell Hull Reagon/Charles Neblitt/Rut
14. I'm Gonna Sit at the Welcome Table - Cordell Hull Reagon/Hollis
15. Mass Meeting and Prayer - Cordell Hull Reagon/Hollis Watkins/Cha
16. Guide My Feet - Doc Reese & Congregation
17. I'm on My Way - Carlton Reece/Birmingham Movment Choir/Mamie Bro
18. Rev. Ralph Abernathy Speaking - Ralph Abernathy
19. Yes, We Want Our Freedom - Carlton Reece/Cleo Kennedy
20. Rev. Martin Luther King Speaking - Rev. Martin Luther King, Sr.
21. Ninety-Nine-And-A-Half Won't Do - Carlton Reece
22. Get on Board - Fannie Lou Hamer/Bob Moses
23. No Danger in the Water - Bob Moses
24. Medgar Evers Speaking - Medgar Evers
25. Keep Your Eyes on the Prize - Bob Moses
26. We Shall Overcome - Cordell Hull Reagon/Dorothy Cotton/Charles N

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You may or may not recognize the artists here as this collection compiles field recordings from the '60s south. Hymns, prayers, spirituals and speeches are sequenced here to capture this time and place in history. Songs from the Montgomery Improvement Association, The Nashville Quartet, Betty Mae Fikes, The Freedom Singers and others join speeches from Martin Luther King, Jr., Medgar Evers and more. Smithsonian-Folkways.
        
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