Freedom Singers from the Civil Rights Movement

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Bob Dylan sang, “I feel I’m Knockin on heaven’s door.” Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, and Mahalia Jackson performed with the Freedom Singers during their initial tour. The four original singers from the Freedom Singers are Cordell Reagan, Rutha Harris, Bernice Johnson, and Charles Neblett. They were a notable band that performed Mae at the march on Washington and had an impact on the Civil Rights Movement and opened peoples’ mind.
The Freedom Singers of the Civil Rights Movement that played at colleges, elementary school, high schools, concert halls, living rooms, jails, political rallies and the March on Washington. The Freedom Singers were successful at singing endeavors, netted SNCC nearly 50,000 dollars for use in Spreading the message of the Civil Rights. The music that the band sang was as affective as a communicative devise because of active participation and unique sounds were part of the musical heritage of black Americans of African descent. The music symbolized horror and truth, yet the peaceful hope of Civil Rights Movement.
One of the folk music singers who sang with the Freedom Singers were Joan Baez. Joan wanted people to have peace through her music. Joan Baez was born in Staten Island, New York, on January 9, 1941. In 1951, she spent a year living in Baghdad, Iraq, with her family when her father accepted a job there. When Joan’s family moves back to the U.S; the family moves to California. In 1956, she hears a Martin Luther King Junior’s lecture on nonviolence and Civil Rights. She also bought her very first guitar. In 1957, she commits her first act of Civil disobedience by refusing to leave her high school during an air-raid drill. Then, she graduated in 1958, from Palo Alto High School.
Joan Baez has accomplished a...

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...ngs knew they had to change their ways, and had to do what’s right. That is the reason the Freedom Singers were brought together and created.

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