Top Ten Protest Songs and the Events that Inspired Them – 5

[Music]
okay next on my list is the civil rights
movement now the civil rights movement
is very interesting because it spawned a
lot of interesting music and basically I
mean it was African Americans trying to
assert their their civil rights and
asking why they weren’t being being
treated as human beings in the United
States and musically a lot of folk
singers became involved with the
movement but it also spawned its own
performers a guy like Harry Belafonte
for example who’s actually someone who
who I feel is sort of quintessential of
this of the civil rights movement
because in addition to being a singer
add to to bringing and to telling people
about it Harry Belafonte was an
african-american man who was who was
struggling at the same time with the
very issues that he was talking about
before he could get up on stage and sing
about the issues he had to deal with the
segregation backstage and he had to deal
with the fact that he had a different
place to stay and music was really
derived from the earliest songs used to
inspire people during slavery and and a
lot of people just said that this was
just like an extension of their
contention that they should be free a
song that I absolutely think should be
associated with this movement is I shall
not be moved a pivotal moment that
define this movement is the march on
Washington in 1963 where we shall not be
moved was actually some final masses