MLK JR

Martin Luther King knew that the Civil Rights movement needed a soundtrack. The Civil Rights movement incorporated jazz, folk, R&B and gospel to use music that everybody could relate to and be inspired by to help change America in the 1950's and 1960's. Here are some of them: "Oh, Freedom" is a post-Civil War African-American freedom song. It is often associated with the … [Read more...] about Sunday Open Thread: Protest Songs of the Civil Rights Movement