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Women and the Civil Rights Movement

Chronology

Civil Rights Songs: A Chronological Listing
Leonard Lehrman. Music and Politics 15(1), Winter 2021.
From the 1500s to 2020.

Music in the Civil Rights Movement

Music in the Civil Rights Movement
Part of the Civil Rights History Project at the Library of Congress.
Songs and Music
Oral history interviews from the Civil Rights History Project at the Library of Congress.

Sound Collections

The Freedom Archives
"Over 12,000 hours of audio and video recordings which date from the late-1960s to the mid-90s and chronicle the progressive history of the Bay Area, the United States, and international movements...Our collection includes weekly news, poetry, music programs; in-depth interviews and reports on social and cultural issues; numerous voices from behind prison walls; diverse activists; and pamphlets, journals and other materials from many radical organizations and movements."
Smithsonian Global Sound
Over 3000 online audio recordings (over 45,000 tracks) of American folk, blues, bluegrass, jazz, spoken word, and world music. Rutgers-restricted Access
DRAM: Database of Recorded American Music
CD quality audio, complete and original liner notes and essays from New World Records, Composers Recordings, Inc. (CRI) and other important labels. Over 1,200 complete CDs (7,500 compositions). Rutgers-restricted Access
Internet Archive: Audio Archive
Over 15,000,000 recordings ranging from alternative news programming, to Grateful Dead concerts, to Old Time Radio shows, to book and poetry readings, to original music uploaded by users. Many of these audios and MP3s are available for free download.