Okay, next on our list is the Civil Rights Movement. Now the Civil Rights Movement is very interesting because it has spawned a lot of interesting music, and basically, I mean, it was African-Americans trying to exert their civil rights and asking, why they were not being treated as human beings in the United States? And musically a lot of folk singers became involved with the moment, but it also spawned its own performers. A guy like Harry Belafonte, for example, who is actually someone who I feel is sort of quite essential of this Civil Rights Movement because in addition to being a singer and to bringing and to telling people about it, Harry Belafonte was an African-American man who was struggling at the same time with the very issues that he was talking about.
Before he could get up on the 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. The music was really derived from the earliest songs used to inspire people during slavery, 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 movement that define this movement as The March on Washington in 1963, where 'We shall not be moved' was actually sung by masses.
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