Nashville Scene

Music of the Civil Rights Movement ♦ Saturday, 18th

Many people dismiss the notion that music can be a force for social change, but never was that notion more evident than during the early days of the civil rights movement, when marchers and workers ...
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Of the People: Women of the Civil Rights Movement

[Horn plays] [Drum roll begins] FANNIE LOU HAMER: I question America, Is this America? The land of the free and the home of the brave. ELAINE BROWN: The Black Panther Party with many other groups and ...
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With a revived civil rights album, Christie Dashiell sings her resistance

The song that made Christie Dashiell want to be a jazz singer was Sarah Vaughan’s 1962 rendition of “When Sunny Gets Blue,” a sparse guitar and double bass arrangement about a man whose failed love ...

The Museum of Christian & Gospel Music Receives Official Designation as a Site on the U.S. Civil Rights Trail

The Museum of Christian & Gospel Music is designated as a site along the U.S. Civil Rights Trail, announced by the ...
Nashville Scene

Two Nashville Music Museums Added to U.S. Civil Rights Trail

Two more Nashville sites are now a part of the U.S. Civil Rights Trail. The Jefferson Street Sound Museum and the Museum of Christian and Gospel Music were added to the national heritage trail this ...