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53 relations: Albany State University, Albany, Georgia, Album, Barack Obama, Barbara Dane, Berkeley, California, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Bob Dylan, Call and response, Charles Albert Tindley, Charles Neblett, Civil rights movement, Cordell Reagon, Deep South, George Wallace, Gospel, Gospel music, Greensboro sit-ins, Guy Carawan, Highlander Research and Education Center, I Have a Dream, I Shall Not Be Moved, Improvisation, James Forman, Jim Crow laws, Joan Baez, Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho, Louise Shropshire, March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Martin Luther King Jr., Matthew Jones (activist), Medgar Evers, Mercury Records, Nashville sit-ins, Nashville, Tennessee, Negro, Newport Folk Festival, Nonviolence, Oh, Freedom, Pete Seeger, Peter, Paul and Mary, Racial segregation in the United States, Raleigh, North Carolina, Rhythm and blues, Sit-in movement, Soul music, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Sweet Honey in the Rock, This Little Light of Mine, We Shall Overcome, ..., We'll Never Turn Back, Which Side Are You On?, White House. Expand index (3 more) »
Albany State University
Albany State University is a four-year, state-supported, historically black university (HBCU) located in Albany, Georgia, United States.
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Albany, Georgia
Albany is a city in the U.S. state of Georgia.
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Album
An album is a collection of audio recordings issued as a single item on CD, record, audio tape or another medium.
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Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th President of the United States from January 20, 2009, to January 20, 2017.
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Barbara Dane
Barbara Dane (born May 12, 1927) is an American folk, blues, and jazz singer.
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Berkeley, California
Berkeley is a city on the east shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California.
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Bernice Johnson Reagon
Bernice Johnson Reagon (born Bernice Johnson on October 4, 1942) is a song leader, composer, scholar, and social activist, who in the early 1960s was a founding member of the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee's (SNCC) Freedom Singers in the Albany Movement.
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Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, author, and painter who has been an influential figure in popular music and culture for more than five decades.
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Call and response
Call and response is a form of interaction between a speaker and an audience in which the speaker's statements ("calls") are punctuated by responses from the listeners.
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Charles Albert Tindley
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Charles Neblett
Charles "Chuck" Neblett (born 1941) is a civil rights activist best known for helping to found and being a member of The Freedom Singers.
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Civil rights movement
The civil rights movement (also known as the African-American civil rights movement, American civil rights movement and other terms) was a decades-long movement with the goal of securing legal rights for African Americans that other Americans already held.
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Cordell Reagon
Cordell Hull Reagon (February 22, 1943 – November 12, 1996) was an American singer and activist.
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Deep South
The Deep South is a cultural and geographic subregion in the Southern United States.
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George Wallace
George Corley Wallace Jr. (August 25, 1919 – September 13, 1998) was an American politician and the 45th Governor of Alabama, having served two nonconsecutive terms and two consecutive terms as a Democrat: 1963–1967, 1971–1979 and 1983–1987.
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Gospel
Gospel is the Old English translation of Greek εὐαγγέλιον, evangelion, meaning "good news".
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Gospel music
Gospel music is a genre of Christian music.
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Greensboro sit-ins
The Greensboro sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1960,, history, Retrieved February 25, 2015 which led to the Woolworth department store chain removing its policy of racial segregation in the Southern United States.
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Guy Carawan
Guy Hughes Carawan, Jr. (July 27, 1927 – May 2, 2015) was an American folk musician and musicologist.
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Highlander Research and Education Center
The Highlander Research and Education Center, formerly known as the Highlander Folk School, is a social justice leadership training school and cultural center in New Market, Tennessee.
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I Have a Dream
"I Have a Dream" is a public speech delivered by American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963, in which he calls for an end to racism in the United States and called for civil and economic rights.
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I Shall Not Be Moved
"I Shall Not Be Moved" is an African American spiritual.
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Improvisation
Improvisation is creating or performing something spontaneously or making something from whatever is available.
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James Forman
James Forman (October 4, 1928 – January 10, 2005) was a prominent African-American leader in the civil rights movement.
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Jim Crow laws
Jim Crow laws were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States.
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Joan Baez
Joan Chandos Baez (born January 9, 1941) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and activist whose contemporary folk music often includes songs of protest or social justice.
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Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho
"Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho" (or alternatively "Joshua Fought the Battle of Jericho" or "Joshua Fit de Battle of Jericho") is a well-known African-American spiritual.
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Louise Shropshire
Louise Shropshire (February 15, 1913 – November 26, 1993) was an African American composer of hymns.
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March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the March on Washington, or The Great March on Washington, was held in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, August 28, 1963.
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Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the civil rights movement from 1954 until his death in 1968.
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Matthew Jones (activist)
Matthew Jones (September 17, 1936 – March 30, 2011) was an African-American folk singer/songwriter known for being a field secretary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and part of their The Freedom Singers in the 1960s.
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Medgar Evers
Medgar Wiley Evers (July 2, 1925June 12, 1963) was an African American civil rights activist in Mississippi and the state's field secretary of the NAACP.
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Mercury Records
Mercury Records is an American-based record label owned by Universal Music Group.
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Nashville sit-ins
The Nashville sit-ins, which lasted from February 13 to May 10, 1960, were part of a nonviolent direct action campaign to end racial segregation at lunch counters in downtown Nashville, Tennessee.
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Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the seat of Davidson County.
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Negro
Negro (plural Negroes) is an archaic term traditionally used to denote persons considered to be of Negroid heritage.
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Newport Folk Festival
The Newport Folk Festival is an American annual folk-oriented music festival in Newport, Rhode Island, which began in July 1959 as a counterpart to the previously established Newport Jazz Festival.
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Nonviolence
Nonviolence is the personal practice of being harmless to self and others under every condition.
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Oh, Freedom
"Oh, Freedom" is a post-Civil War African-American freedom song.
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Pete Seeger
Peter Seeger (May 3, 1919 – January 27, 2014) was an American folk singer and social activist.
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Peter, Paul and Mary
Peter, Paul and Mary was an American folk group formed in New York City in 1961, during the American folk music revival phenomenon.
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Racial segregation in the United States
Racial segregation in the United States, as a general term, includes the segregation or separation of access to facilities, services, and opportunities such as housing, medical care, education, employment, and transportation along racial lines.
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Raleigh, North Carolina
Raleigh is the capital of the state of North Carolina and the seat of Wake County in the United States.
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Rhythm and blues
Rhythm and blues, commonly abbreviated as R&B, is a genre of popular music that originated in African American communities in the 1940s.
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Sit-in movement
The sit-in movement, or student sit-in movement, was a wave of sit-ins that followed the Greensboro sit-ins on February 1, 1960 in North Carolina.
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Soul music
Soul music (often referred to simply as soul) is a popular music genre that originated in the African American community in the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC, often pronounced) was one of the major Civil Rights Movement organizations of the 1960s.
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Sweet Honey in the Rock
Sweet Honey in the Rock is an all-woman, African-American a cappella ensemble.
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This Little Light of Mine
"This Little Light of Mine" is a gospel song written for children in the 1920s by Harry Dixon Loes.
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We Shall Overcome
"We Shall Overcome" is a gospel song which became a protest song and a key anthem of the Civil Rights Movement.
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We'll Never Turn Back
We'll Never Turn Back is the eleventh studio album by American gospel and soul singer Mavis Staples, released April 24, 2007 on ANTI- Records.
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Which Side Are You On?
"Which Side Are You On?" is a song written in 1931 by Florence Reece, the wife of Sam Reece, a union organizer for the United Mine Workers in Harlan County, Kentucky.
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White House
The White House is the official residence and workplace of the President of the United States.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Freedom_Singers
