Summary

In the passage titled “Music in the Civil Rights Movement”. The writer explains about the
movement of “Civil rights”. He starts with “The Civil Rights Movement was aided by African
American spiritual, gospel, and folk music”. Activists received songs from singers, musicians,
and song collectors. They sung these songs for a number of purposes, including to inspire them.
He also mentions that “Guy Carawan and Candie Carawan perform music from the civil rights
era."There were all the sarcasm and all the humor where you poked fun at people," she recalls.
“Pete Seeger, a singer, was important in getting the song "We Shall Overcome" out to civil rights
activists,” the author continues. He went to Jackson, Mississippi, in 1964 to aid the student
Nonviolent Coordinating Committee's Mississippi Freedom Summer Project. In article also
discusses “In 1958, Jamila Jones performed at the Highlander Folk School, which provided
nonviolent activism training”. The school was raided by the authorities, who turned out all of the
lights. Jones got the courage to sing "We Shall Overcome" and "We Are Not Afraid." The author
ends with a great speech “Music was also something for the individuals who were part of the
Civil Rights Movement”