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Let freedom sing : the music of the civil rights movement

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[Vol.] 1. Go down Moses (The Southern Sons) -- Strange fruit (Billie Holiday) -- Uncle Sam says (Josh White) -- No restricted signs (The Golden Gate Quartet) -- Black, brown, and white (Brownie McGhee) -- The hammer song : (If I had a hammer) (The Weavers) -- The death of Emmett Till, parts 1 & 2 (The Ramparts) -- When do I get to be called a man? (Big Bill Broonzy) -- The Alabama bus (Brother Will Hairston (Hurricane of the Motor City)) -- We are Americans too (Nat "King" Cole) -- Why (am I treated so bad)? (The Staple Singers) -- I shall not be moved (The Harmonizing Four) -- Oh freedom (Harry Belafonte with the Belafonte Folk Singers) -- Ride on, Red, ride on (Louisiana Red) -- Mississippi goddam (Nina Simone) -- Blowin' in the wind (Bob Dylan) -- We shall overcome (Mahalia Jackson) -- Too many martyrs (Phil Ochs) -- Alabama blues (J.B. Lenoir) -- Our freedom song (The Jubilee Hummingbirds) -- A change is gonna come (Otis Redding)
[Vol.] 2. Forty acres and a mule (Oscar Brown, Jr.) -- People get ready (The Impressions) -- Nobody can turn me around (The Mighty Clouds of Joy) -- I wish I knew (how it would feel to be free) (Solomon Burke) -- Respect (Aretha Franklin) -- The Motor City is burning (John Lee Hooker) -- Crying in the streets, part 1 (George Perkins & the Silver Stars) -- Abraham, Martin, and John (Smokey Robinson & the Miracles) -- The prayer (Ray Scott) -- Say it loud, I'm Black and I'm proud, part 1 (James Brown) -- And black is beautiful (Nickie Lee) -- Sock it to 'em, soul brother (Bill Moss) -- Why I sing the blues, part 1 (B.B. King) -- I don't want nobody to give me nothing (open up the door, I'll get it myself), part 1 Stand! (Sly & the Family Stone) -- Message from a Black man (The Temptations) -- Is it because I'm Black (Syl Johnson) -- I was born blue (Swamp Dogg) -- Yes, we can, part 1 (Lee Dorsey) -- We the people who are darker than blue (Curtis Mayfield) -- Young, gifted, and Black (Bob & Marcia)
[Vol.] 3. The revolution will not be televised (Gil Scott-Heron) -- (For God's sake) Give more power to the people (The Chi-Lites) -- Smiling faces sometimes (The Undisputed Truth) -- Inner city blues (make me wanna holler) (Marvin Gaye) -- Hercules (Aaron Neville) -- Get up, stand up (Bob Marley and the Wailers) -- Fight the power, part 1 (The Isley Brothers) -- Give the people what they want (The O'Jays) -- Black is black (Jungle Brothers) -- Sister Rosa (The Neville Brothers) -- The pride (Chuck D) -- Unity (Sounds of Blackness) -- None of us are free (Solomon Burke) -- Eyes on the prize (The Soujourners) -- Down in Mississippi (Mavis Staples) -- Free at last (The Blind Boys of Alabama)

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