We bring you movement songs from Mavis Staples, The Staple Singers, and the Freedom Singers, revolutionary poetry by Gil Scott-Heron and The Last Poets, songs of freedom for Juneteenth by Max Roach and Abbey Lincoln, the Nat Turner Rebellion, and Roberta Flack, plus powerful songs from Rasheed Ali, Duke Ellington, and Louis Armstrong.
PLEASE NOTE: Due to the vagaries of Spinitron, these songs are listed in reverse order. (i.e., Joan Armatrading Back to the Night is song 1, hour 1 Sam Cooke "Havin' a Party" from Live at the Harlem Square Club 1963 on RCA
Sam Cooke "Havin' a Party" from Live at the Harlem Square Club 1963 on RCA Charles Earland "Message from a Black Man" from Living Black! Shepsu Napata "I Can't Breathe" on Nerukhi Studios Nerukhi "Black Lives Matter (Acoustic)" Marcus Shelby "Memphis (I Am a Man)" from Soul of the Movement Stevie Wonder "Black Man" from Songs in the Key of Life Norman Connors "The Creator Has a Master Plan" from You Are My Starship The Destruments "Freedom" from Like Yesterday 7" Single The Freedom Singers "Calypso Freedom" from Voices of the Civil Rights Movement Black American Freedom Songs 1960-1966 Aretha Franklin "Mary, Don't You Weep" from Amazing Grace Sister Rosetta Tharpe "Jericho" from Gospel Train + Sister on Tour (Bonus Track Version) Mahalia Jackson "We Shall Overcome" from Mahalia Jackson Sings The Best Loved Hymns of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Duke Ellington "King Fit the Battle of Alabam" from My People Louis Armstrong and Dave Brubeck "They Say I Look Like God" from The Real Ambassadors Roberta Flack "Go Up Moses" from Quiet Fire Nat Turner Rebellion "Tribute to a Slave" Max Roach feat. Abbey Lincoln "Freedom Day" from We Insist! Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite The Last Poets (with Bernard Purdie) "Blessed Are Those Who Struggle" from Delights Of The Garden Gil Scott-Heron "No Knock" from The Revolution Begins: The Flying Dutchman Masters The Freedom Singers "If You Miss Me From the Back of the Bus" from Voices of the Civil Rights Movement Black American Freedom Songs 1960-1966 Disc 1 The Staple Singers "Freedom Highway" from Freedom Highway: Recorded Live at Chicago's N Mavis Staples "We'll Never Turn Back" from We'll Never Turn Back Aaron Myers "Black Lives Matter" Rasheed Ali "Will You Stand Up For Me?" from 1968: The Other Side of Town Ben Williams "March On (feat. Wes Felton)" from I Am A Man Joan Armatrading "Back to the Night" from Back to the Night on A&M