Let freedom sing : the music of the civil rights movement.

Additional Details

Time Life: 80051-D (80052-D--80054-D); additional no. on outer container: A732990; B0012352-02.

Compact discs.

Booklet (39 p. : ill.) includes detailed commentaries, a timeline, discographical information, and rare photos.

Go down Moses -- Strange fruit -- Uncle Sam says -- No restricted signs -- Black, brown, and white -- The hammer song : (If I had a hammer) -- The death of Emmett Till, parts 1 & 2 -- When do I get to be called a man? -- The Alabama bus -- We are Americans too -- Why (am I treated so bad)? -- I shall not be moved -- Oh freedom -- Ride on, Red, ride on -- Mississippi goddam -- Blowin' in the wind -- We shall overcome -- Too many martyrs -- Alabama blues -- Our freedom song -- A change is gonna come

Forty acres and a mule -- People get ready -- Nobody can turn me around -- I wish I knew (how it would feel to be free) -- Respect -- The Motor City is burning -- Crying in the streets, part 1 -- Abraham, Martin, and John -- The prayer -- Say it loud, I'm Black and I'm proud, part 1 -- And black is beautiful -- Sock it to 'em, soul brother -- Why I sing the blues, part 1 -- I don't want nobody to give me nothing (open up the door, I'll get it myself), part 1 -- Stand! -- Message from a Black man -- Is it because I'm Black -- Yes, we can, part 1 -- We the people who are darker than blue -- Young, gifted, and Black

The revolution will not be televised -- (For God's sake) Give more power to the people -- Smiling faces sometimes -- Inner city blues (make me wanna holler) -- Hercules -- Get up, stand up -- Fight the power, part 1 -- Give the people what they want -- Black is black -- Sister Rosa -- The pride -- Unity -- None of us are free -- Eyes on the prize -- Down in Mississippi -- Free at last

Various performers.

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