016 Gospel and the Civil Rights II

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

  1. Get Your Rights, Jack by The CORE Freedom Singers on Voices of the Civil Rights Movement: Black American Freedom Songs 1960-1966
  2. I Told Jesus by BERTHA GOBER on Voices of the Civil Rights Movement: Black American Freedom Songs 1960-1966
  3. Calypso Freedom by Sweet Honey In the Rock on This Land Is Your Land: Songs Of Unity
  4. 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
  5. This Little Light by The Freedom Singers on Sing for Freedom: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement Through Its Songs
  6. Move on up a Little Higher by Albertina Walker & The Caravans on Sail Away Some Bright Morning
  7. In Times Like These by Rev. C.L. Franklin on Nothing Shall Separate Me from the Love of God
  8. Amazing Grace by New Bethel on Hallelujah Heritage: The Best of Gospel Spirituals
  9. That's the Kind of God by The Original Gospel Harmonettes on My Father's Children
  10. That's Enough by Dorothy Love Coates & The Original Gospel Harmonettes on The Best of Dorothy Love Coates and the Original Gospel Harmonettes
  11. Freedom Highway by The Staple Singers on Freedom Highway (Gospel Spirit Series)
  12. City Called Heaven by Fannie Lou Hamer on Songs My Mother Taught Me