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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]
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.
The song has often been referred to as one of the essential songs of the Black Lives Matter movement by music critics. [7] In 2018, Esquire named it one of the "Best Modern Protest Songs For America". [8] Ed Masley of The Arizona Republic ranked it as the 16th best civil rights song. [9]
"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 ...
"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 ...
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]
The words "We shall overcome" are sung emphatically at the end of each verse in a song of Northern Ireland's civil rights movement, Free the People, which protested against the internment policy of the British Army. The movement in Northern Ireland was keen to emulate the movement in the US and often sang "We shall overcome".
"Only a Pawn in Their Game" is a song written by Bob Dylan about the assassination of civil rights activist Medgar Evers in Jackson, Mississippi, on June 12, 1963. Showing support for African-Americans during the American Civil Rights Movement , the song was released on Dylan's The Times They Are a-Changin' album in 1964.