Various performers. Compact discs. "Includes a 40-page book with detailed commentaries, a timeline, and rare photos"--Container. Compilation of selections previously released.
Contents:
Free at last (The Blind Boys of Alabama). 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 Rumparts) -- 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) -- 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 (James Brown) -- Stand! (Sly & the Family Stone) -- Message froma black man (The Temptations) -- Yes, we can, part 1 (Lee Dorsey) -- We are the people who are darker than blue (Curtis Mayfield) -- Young, gifted, and black (Bob & Marcia) -- The revolution will not be televised (Gill 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 (Sound 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).
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.