Songs of the Civil Rights Movement
Friday May 12, 2006
Category: American Civil Liberties (general) | Race and Equal Opportunity
Kim Ruehl brings us a list of ten songs from the civil rights movement, with links to relevant live audio. Whether you lived through the movement yourself or would just like to gain a better understanding of what it was all about, music is memory's keyhole, the language of anamnesis, the voice crying out in the wilderness that can still be heard on a cold, windy day.
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Kim Ruehl brings us a list of ten songs from the civil rights movement, with links to relevant live audio. Whether you lived through the movement yourself or would just like to gain a better understanding of what it was all about, music is memory's keyhole, the language of anamnesis, the voice crying out in the wilderness that can still be heard on a cold, windy day.
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What has been happening in this country in terms of civil liberties…makes me cringe.
Are we behind the Iron Curtain?
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