Since we covered the where and the groups last time, this week I’m going to be focusing more on individuals of gospel that were active in the civil rights movement: The badass gospel songwriter William Herbert Brewster of Memphis and my favorite to read about this session, Dorothy Love Coates.
I’m gonna chitchat about Fannie Lou Hamer, a name we hear about, a face that we have seen but do you know why she’s significant?
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Playlist
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Get Your Rights, Jack by The CORE Freedom Singers on Voices of the Civil Rights Movement: Black American Freedom Songs 1960-1966 -
I Told Jesus by BERTHA GOBER on Voices of the Civil Rights Movement: Black American Freedom Songs 1960-1966 -
Calypso Freedom by Sweet Honey In the Rock on This Land Is Your Land: Songs Of Unity -
Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Round by The Freedom Singers on Sing for Freedom: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement Through Its Songs -
This Little Light by The Freedom Singers on Sing for Freedom: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement Through Its Songs -
Move on up a Little Higher by Albertina Walker & The Caravans on Sail Away Some Bright Morning -
In Times Like These by Rev. C.L. Franklin on Nothing Shall Separate Me from the Love of God -
Amazing Grace by New Bethel on Hallelujah Heritage: The Best of Gospel Spirituals -
That's the Kind of God by The Original Gospel Harmonettes on My Father's Children -
That's Enough by Dorothy Love Coates & The Original Gospel Harmonettes on The Best of Dorothy Love Coates and the Original Gospel Harmonettes -
Freedom Highway by The Staple Singers on Freedom Highway (Gospel Spirit Series) -
City Called Heaven by Fannie Lou Hamer on Songs My Mother Taught Me