Sounds of the Civil Rights Movement
Playlist • 50 Track(s)
These seminal '60s recordings highlight the important role that music played in uniting, energizing and sustaining momentum in the African-American Civil Rights Movement.
Sam Cooke - A Change Is Gonna Come (Official Lyric Video)
3:11
Bob Dylan - The Times They Are A-Changin' (Official Audio)
3:14
Aretha Franklin - Respect (Live at the Olympia Theatre, Paris, May 7, 1968)
2:23
The Impressions - Keep On Pushing
2:36
Mahalia Jackson - Take My Hand, Precious Lord (Official Audio)
4:14
Leadbelly - Black Betty
2:03
Sam Cooke - This Little Light Of Mine (Official Live Audio)
3:41
Bob Dylan - Chimes of Freedom (Official Audio)
7:13
Nina Simone - Mississippi Goddam (Official Audio - Live)
6:56
James Brown - Say It Loud - I'm Black And I'm Proud (Pt. 1)
2:42
Phil Ochs - Here's to the State of Mississippi
5:54
Sweet Honey In The Rock - Eyes On The Prize ("Hold On") (Voice)
3:36
The Staple Singers - Why (Am I Treated So Bad)
2:51
Bob Dylan - The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll (Official Audio)
5:47
Mahalia Jackson - How I Got Over (Live)
7:17
John Lee Hooker - The Motor City Is Burning
2:50
Joan Baez - Oh, Freedom (Live At Newport)
3:16
Nina Simone - To Be Young, Gifted and Black (Live at Philharmonic Hall, New York, NY - October 1969)
10:09
Judy Henske - God Bless the Child
3:22
Martin Luther King, Jr. - Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. (Speaking)
3:43
Bernice Johnson Reagon - Freedom in the Air
3:20
The Staple Singers - Freedom Highway (Live)
4:05
Sly & The Family Stone - Underdog (single master)
3:05
Nina Simone - Revolution (Pt. 2)
1:53
Pete Seeger - If I Had a Hammer (Live)
3:03
Harry Belafonte - Oh, Freedom
3:20
Montgomery Improvement Association - This Little Light (1)
2:15
The Staple Singers - This Train
2:42
Congregation of Brown Chapel - Oh, Freedom
1:12
Mamie Brown - I'm on My Way
3:31
Odetta - One Grain Of Sand
3:10
The Broadside Singers - Freedom Is a Constant Struggle (feat. Len Chandler)
4:22
The Montgomery Gospel Trio, The Nashville Quartet, & Guy Carawan - We Shall Overcome
5:36
Hollis Watkins - I'm Gonna Sit at the Welcome Table
1:55
Civil rights protestors - Get On Board
1:36
Carlton Reese & The Birmingham Movement Choir - 99 1/2 Won't Do
2:41
Odetta - Amazing Grace
2:14
Betty Mae Fikes - Up Above My Head
1:03
The Montgomery Gospel Trio, The Nashville Quartet, & Guy Carawan - Hold On
2:43
Bernice Johnson Reagon - Been in the Storm So Long
4:01
James Bevel - I'm Going to Sit at the Welcome Table, The Story of the Sit-In Movement / "We Shall Not Be Moved"
4:30
Barbara Dane - It Isn't Nice
4:10
The Freedom Voices & Len Chandler - Which Side Are You on? (Civil Rights Version)
4:22
Charles Jones & Cordell Reagon - Keep Your Eyes on the Prize (1)
1:48
J.B. Lenoir - Alabama Blues (Live)
3:05
Aretha Franklin - Precious Lord, Pt. 1
3:26
Mahalia Jackson - Move on Up a Little Higher
6:12
Barbara Dane - When We Make It Through
5:28
The New World Singer - Blowin' in the Wind
2:32
Mahalia Jackson - In the Upper Room
7:14