Freedom Songs: Selma / Various: Freedom Songs: Selma / Various
Freedom Songs: Selma / Various: Freedom Songs: Selma / Various
Format: CD
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Artist: Freedom Songs: Selma / Various
Label: Folkways Records
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 093070559424
Genre: Folk, African
This documentary recording chronicles civil rights protesters singing during a march from Selma, Alabama, to the State Capitol in Montgomery, to demand fair access to voting registration. The songs express hope and sorrow and a call for equality, and many of them are traditional with lyrics adapted for the protests. There are no instruments, just the voices of the demonstrators and their leaders. On February 18th, 1965, Jimmie Lee Jackson was fatally shot by an Alabama state trooper during a peaceful protest. The shooting inspired a march from Selma to Montgomery on March 7th. As the six hundred protesters reached the Edmund Pettus Bridge to cross the Alabama River, state troopers and local police blocked their path and ordered them to turn around. When the protesters refused, officers shot tear gas and beat some of the protesters with clubs. More than fifty people were hospitalized during the march, which became known as "Bloody Sunday." a subsequent march on March 9th also was stopped, this time without violence; finally, later in March, a larger, better organized third march successfully reached Montgomery. Partially as a result of these protests, on August 6th, 1965, the U.S. Congress passed the Voting Rights Act. This album was recorded and produced by Carl Benkert, who served as the night watchman for the marchers and made audio recordings of the third march. Benkert's liner notes tell the story of the protesters, including lyrics to these powerful songs and riveting photographs of the march.
Tracks:
1.1 God Will Take Care of You / Climbing Jacob's Ladder (Medley)
1.2 Steal Away, Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen
1.3 Come By Here
1.4 Berlin Wall
1.5 We Shall Not Be Moved
1.6 Oh, Freedom
1.7 If You Miss Me from the Back of the Bus
1.8 Woke Up This Morning with My Mind Stayed on Freedom
1.9 Which Side Are You on, Boy? / Keep Your Eye on the Prize (Medley)
1.10 Everybody Wants Freedom
1.11 Freedom Now Chant
1.12 Go Tell It on the Mountain / Which Side Are You on, Boy? (Medley)
1.13 Oh, Wallace
1.14 Get on Board
1.15 Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Round
1.16 This Little Light of Mine / Which Side Are You On? / Freedom Now Chant / Come By Here (Medley)
1.17 We Shall Overcome
1.18 Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me 'Round / Freedom, Freedom, Freedom / Oh Wallace (Medley)
1.19 Which Side Are You on, Boy?
