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Resources


  1. Freedom Songs Lyrics
  2. History Channel: Civil Rights Movement
  3. PBS: Eyes on the Prize

 

References


Banks, James A. 1996. "Black Studies." In Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History, Vol. 1, edited by Jack Salzman, David Lionel Smith, and Come! West, 364-69. New York: Macmillan Library Reference.

Bobetsky, Victor V. 2014. "The Complex Ancestry of 'We Shall Overcome.'" The Choral Journal 54, no. 7 (February): 26-36.

Cantwell, Robert. 1996. When We Were Good: The Folk Revival. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Epstein, Dena J. 1977. Sinful Tunes and Spirituals: Black Folk Music to the Civil War. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press.

Gellert, Lawrence. 1936. Negro Songs of Protest. New York: American Music League.

Hsiung, David C. 2005. "Teaching History with Music." OAH Magazine of History 19, no. 4 (July): 23-26.

Jackson, Bruce, ed. 1967. The Negro and His Folklore in Nineteenth-Century Periodicals. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press.

Library of Congress. "The Civil Rights Act of 1964: The Long Road to Freedom." Accessed January 25, 2021. https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/civil-rights-act/civil-rights-act-of-1964.html.

Lipsitz, George. 1994. Dangerous Crossroads: Popular Music, Postmodernism, and the Poetics of Place. New York: Verso.

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. "NAACP History: Lift Every Voice and Sing." Accessed February 2, 2021. https://www.naacp.org/naacp-history-lift-evry-voice-and-sing/.

Southern, Eileen, ed. 1983. Readings in Black American Music, 2nd ed. New York: W.W. Norton.

Southern, Eileen, and Josephine Wright. 1990. African American Traditions in Song, Sermon, Tale, and Dance, 1600s-1920: An Annotated Bibliography of Literature, Collections, and Artworks. New York: Greenwood Press.

Spellman, A.B. 1970. Black Music, Four Lives. New York: Schocken Books.

Trotter, James M. 1878. Music and Some Highly Musical People. New York: Charles T. Dillingham.

Williams, George Washington. 1882. History of the Negro Race in America. 2 vols. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons.