Songs Of The Civil Rights Movement

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Martin Luther King Jr. opened the 1964 Berlin Jazz Festival with these words: “Jazz speaks for life.” The 1960s civil-rights movement inspired blues and jazz songs about the setbacks, hardships and hard-won victories that moved (and that continue to move) America closer to racial equality.

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