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N.E.H. Civil Rights Institute: Related Materials

A Selected List of Literature and Music Related to the Civil Rights Movement

By

A. Yemisi Jimoh
Department of English
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

Literature

Baldwin, James. "Everybody�s Protest Novel." 1949.

---. The Fire Next Time. 1962.

Bambara, Toni Cade. The Salt Eaters. 1980.

Baraka, Amiri. "Ka �Ba." 1969.

Brooks, Gwendolyn. "A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi. Meanwhile a Mississippi Mother  Burns Bacon." 1960.

---. "The Last Quatrain of the Ballad of Emmett Till." 1960.

---. "The Chicago Defender Sends a Man to Little Rock." 1960.

---. In the Mecca. 1968.

Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man. 1952.

Giovanni, Nikki. "Nikki Rosa." 1968.

---. "Revolutionary Music." 1968.

Hayden, Robert. "El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz." 1970.

Hughes, Langston. Montage of a Dream Deferred. 1951.

---. Ask Your Mama: Twelve Moods for Jazz. 1961.

---. Good Morning Revolution: Uncollected Writings of Social Protest. Ed. Faith Berry. 1973.

---. "Ballad of Harry Moore." 1951.

Kelly, Robin D.G. Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class. 1994.

Lorraine Hansberry. A Raisin in the Sun. 1959.

Madhubuti, Haki. "Black Again, Home." 1967.

---. "Don�t Cry, Scream." 1969.

---. "Assassination." 1969.

---. "One Sided Shoot-out." 1970.

---. "We Walk the Way of the New World." 1970.

McKay, Claude. "If We Must Die." 1919

Moody, Anne. Coming of Age in Mississippi. 1968.

Morrison, Toni. Sula. 1973.

Oyewole, Abiodun and Umar Bin Hassan. On a Mission: Selected Poems and a History of the Last Poets. 1996.

Randall, Dudley, "Ballad of Birmingham."

Reed, Ishmael. "I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra." 1972.

---. Flight to Canada. 1976.

Rose, Tricia. Black Noise. 1994.

Sonia Sanchez. "the final solution." 1969.

---. "right on: white america."

Walker, Alice. The Third Life of Grange Copeland. 1970.

---. Meridian. 1976.

Walker, Margaret. "For My People." 1942.

Music

Brown, James. "Black Is Beautiful: Say It Loud I�m Black and I�m Proud." 1968.

---. "I Don�t Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing (Open Up the Door, I�ll Get It Myself). 1970.

---. "Payback." 1973.

Jacquet, Illinois Battiste. "I Wish I knew (How It Would Feel to Be Free)." 1968. (Solomon Burke, Nina Simone)

Coltrane, John. "Alabama." 1963.

Cooke, Sam. "A Change Is Gonna Come." (1965­released posthumously).

Diddley, Bo (Ellas Otha Bates McDaniels). "I�m a Man." 1958.

---. "I Don�t Want Your Welfare." 1985.

Dorsey, Lee. "Yes We Can, Can." 1970.

---. "Who�s Gonna Help a Brother." 1970.

Fifth Dimension. "The Declaration/A Change Is Gonna Come/People Get Ready." 1970.

Flack, Roberta and Donny Hathaway. "Be Real Black for Me." 1972.

Franklin, Aretha. "Respect." 1967. (Otis Redding)

---. "Think." 1968.

Franklin, Aretha and Donny Hathaway. "To Be Young Gifted and Black." 1972. (Nina Simone and Weldon Irvine, Jr.).

Gaye, Marvin. What�s Going On? 1971.

Hathaway, Donnie. "The Ghetto." 1970.

---. "Someday We�ll All Be Free." 1973.

Holiday, Billie. "Strange Fruit." 1939. (Lewis Allan)

---. . "Willow Weep for Me." 1944. (Ann Ronell)

Impressions (with Curtis Mayfield). "Keep on Pushing." 1964.

---. "People Get Ready." 1965

---. "We�re a Winner." 1968.

---. "Choice of Colors." 1969.

---. "This Is My Country." 1969.

Isley Brothers. "Blacker the Berries." 1969.

---. "Freedom." 1970.

---. "Fight the Power." 1975.

Johnson, Syl. "Is It Because I�m Balck?" 1970.

Lincoln, Abbey (Aminata Moseka) and Max Roach. "Freedom Now Suite." 1960.

Main Ingredient. "Black Seeds Keep on Growing." 1971.

---. "Rolling Down a Mountainside." 1975.

Mayfield, Curtis. "Mighty, Mighty (Spade, and Whitey)." 1969.

---. "We People Who Are Darker Than Blue." 1970.

---. "Move on Up." 1970.

McCann, Les and Eddie Harris. "Compared to What." 1969.

Melvin, Harold and the Blue Notes. "Wake Up Everybody." 1975.

Mingus, Charles. "Fables of Faubus." 1959.

Paul, Billy. "Am I Black Enough for You?" 1972.

Reagon Bernice Johnson. Give Your Hands to Struggle. 1997.

---. Voices of the Civil Rights Movement (Black American Freedom Songs, 1960-1966). 1997.

Santana, Carlos. "Free Angela." Lotus. 1974.

Scott-Heron, Gil. "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised." Pieces of a Man. 1971.

---. "Message to the Messenger." Spirit. 1994.

Scott-Heron, Gil and Brian Jackson. Winter in America. 1974

---. From South Carolina to South Africa. 1975.

Simone, Nina. "Mississippi God Damn." 1963.

---. "Four Women." 1964.

Sly and the Family Stones. "Stand." 1969.

---. "Don�t Call Me Nigger, Whitey." 1969.

---. There�s a Riot Going On. 1971.

Staple Singers. "Why? (Am I Treated So Bad)." 1963.

---. "Freedom Highway." 1965.

---. "Respect Yourself." 1972.

Sweet Honey in the Rock. "Joanne Little." 1976.

Temptations. "Ball of Confusion." 1969.

---. "Message from a Balck Man." 1969.

---. "Slave." 1969.

Waters, Muddy (McKinley Morganfield) and Langston Hughes. "Goodbye Newport Blues." 1960.

Wonder, Stevie. "Living for the City." 1973.

---. "Visions." 1973.

---. "Jesus Children of America." 1973.

Music and Literature

Hughes, Langston, Charles Mingus and Leonard Feather. Weary Blues. 1958.

Mingus, Charles. A Modern Jazz Symposium of Music and Poetry with Charles Mingus. 1957.

Sweet Honey in the Rock. "Dream Variation." 1976.


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