Music played a key role in the civil rights movement. People marched to freedom songs while artists from Sam Cooke to Bob Dylan took the message to the masses in recordings as enduring as "A Change is ...

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Civil rights activist Bernard Lafayette, who helped organize the Selma Voting Rights Movement in the 1960s, died March 5, 2026, at age 85. In this 1980 "Sunday Morning" report by Ted Holmes, Lafayette ...

Lessons in which students take part in musical activities while learning the history of South African "freedom songs." They look at correlations, both musical and historical, to the African American ...

For voice and piano; includes chord symbols. Freedom in the air -- Oh, Wallace -- If you miss me from the back of the bus -- Certainly, Lord -- Come and go with me to that land -- I'm gonna sit at the ...