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The lyrics to the modern Civil Rights version of the song, "Keep Your Eyes on the Prize" are often attributed to Alice Wine from Johns Island, South Carolina. [8] [9] [10] Mrs. Wine was a member of the Moving Star Hall and The Progressive Club on Johns Island.
"Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me 'Round" is a freedom song based on the spiritual "Don't You Let Nobody Turn You Round" and became an American civil rights era anthem. [1] [2] [3] It was sung during demonstrations for civil rights in the United States including during the Memphis sanitation strike in 1967. The song's lyrics are adaptable to ...
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"Oh, Freedom" is a post-Civil War African-American freedom song. It is often associated with the Civil Rights Movement, with Odetta, who recorded it as part of the "Spiritual Trilogy", on her Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues album, [1] and with Joan Baez, who performed the song at the 1963 March on Washington. [2]
"Lift Every Voice and Sing" is a hymn with lyrics by James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938) and set to music by his brother, J. Rosamond Johnson (1873–1954). Written from the context of African Americans in the late 19th century, the hymn is a prayer of thanksgiving to God as well as a prayer for faithfulness and freedom, with imagery that evokes the biblical Exodus from slavery to the freedom ...
As "We Shall Not Be Moved" the song gained popularity as a protest and union song of the Civil rights movement. [2]The song became popular in the Swedish anti-nuclear and peace movements in the late 1970s, in a Swedish translation by Roland von Malmborg, "Aldrig ger vi upp" ('Never shall we give up').
Freedom Song: The Story of Henry "Box" Brown, by Sally M. Walker and illustrated by Sean Qualls; Freedom Song: A Personal Story of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, by Mary King, 1987; Freedom Song: Three Novels, by Amit Chaudhuri, 2000
Civil Rights Movement activists adapted their own version. [8] Elvis Costello & Joan Baez On Another Day Another Time, Celebrating The Music of 'Inside Llewyn Davis' Sarah Lee Guthrie, daughter of Arlo Guthrie and granddaughter of Woody Guthrie, performed a version of the song with new lyrics at a Bernie Sanders rally in 2020. [9]