S4 E7: Freedom Summer
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Ain't Goin to Let Nobody Turn Me Round
Most of the freedom songs were adapted from gospel, blues and folk music as tools for movement organizing. Music was a source of healing, unity and motivation. The primary organizers fthe southern civil rights movement did not meet in offices in atlanta or washington, d c, or new york. They gathered at night, usually in black churches in small towns and on rural back roads.
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