Never Let Nobody Turn Me Around Meaning

The African American civil rights song “Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me ‘Round” is based on an African American Gospel song “Don’t Let Nobody Turn me Round.” A version that was recorded in 1947. Freedom songs such as “Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me ‘Round” were a way of life during the Civil Rights Movements. For the many people protesting during the civil rights the words to the song contained many different meanings to each person. Music strengthen the movement very much, in this particular song the protesters sing about how they are not going to stop fighting for what they believe in and no one will turn them around, they will keep marching no matter what was thrown at them. Many blacks and whites were beat to death by white police and other whites but those who lived kept marching and kept fighting for what they believed in. The songs helped pushed for because it was a language of its own to get to more people and while they proudly sang them it gave them the strength to push on.

I feel like this is stating that they will not let anything or anyone change them and their beliefs, they will keep protesting and going out to do what they need to do to make a change in the nation. One of the many things that they point out in the song is Chief Pritchett, also known as Laurie Pritchett. He served as the police chief in Albany Georgia, he was also one who succeeded in standing in the way of the movement in 1962. Pritchett would arrest many participants in during the movement. He worked very hard to put an end to all of it but they sang loud and proud that he would not stop them, because of the song it gave them the strength to push against him and fight for equal