Title: Sing for Freedom: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement Through Its Songs
Publisher: NewSouth Books
Publication Date: 2007
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1588381935
ISBN 13: 9781588381934
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Very Good
Weight: 567 grams

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Two classic collections of freedom songs, We Shall Overcome (1963) and Freedom Is A Constant Struggle (1968), are reprinted here in a single edition which includes a major new introduction by the editors, words and music to songs, important documentary photographs, and scores of firsthand accounts by participants in this key movement which reshaped U.S. history.

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Candie Carawan (Editor)
CANDIE CARAWAN, with her husband Guy Carawan, compiled We Shall Overcome: Songs of the Southern Freedom Movement and contributed to Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: An Anthology of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement. They have been associated with the Highlander Research and Education Center for more than forty years. Throughout the 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's, the Carawans organized cultural workshops at Highlander and in the field, focused on civil rights, citizenship education in the Sea Islands, and coalfield and environmental organizing in Appalachia.

Guy Carawan (Editor)
GUY CARAWAN (1927–2015) was an educator, writer, musician, and collector who dedicated himself to preserving the culture of the South and fighting for the civil rights of its common people. He and his spouse, Candie Carawan, had a decades-long association with the Highlander Research and Education Center in New Market, Tennessee. The Carawans served as consultants to the public television productions of "Eyes on the Prize" and "History of the Song 'We Shall Overcome.'" Their books include Ain't You Got a Right to the Tree of Life? (Georgia), We Shall Overcome, and Freedom Is a Constant Struggle.

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