• "Oh, Freedom" is a post-Civil War African-American freedom song. It is often associated with the Civil Rights Movement, with Odetta, who recorded it as...
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    AME preacher. We talked. Every now and then, people on the bus sang 'Oh Freedom' and 'We Shall Overcome,' but for the most part there wasn't a whole bunch...
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    Freedom Summer, also known as Mississippi Freedom Summer (sometimes referred to as the Freedom Summer Project or the Mississippi Summer Project), was a...
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    Highway to Freedom". The Wilson Quarterly. 30 (2): 103–104. ISSN 0363-3276. JSTOR 40261085. Martin, Michael T. (2011). "'Buses Are a Comin'. Oh Yeah!': Stanley...
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  • director living in Memphis, Tennessee. He is best known for his documentary Oh Freedom After While, a story of the Missouri sharecropper strike of 1939. Ross...
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    Freedom Township is one of the eighteen townships of Portage County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census found 2,649 people in the township. Located...
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    was an embarrassment for me to be there, and for somebody to celebrate it, oh my God. I want to go down in history, and have a bunch of things named after...
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    precedent of his arbitration with Alabama Governor John Patterson during the Freedom Rides, Robert Kennedy had extensive telephone conversations with Barnett...
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  • Broken Freedom Song: Live from San Francisco is a live album by Kris Kristofferson, released in 2003 (see 2003 in music) on the Oh Boy record label. Recorded...
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  • Freedom Schools were temporary, alternative, and free schools for African Americans mostly in the South. They were originally part of a nationwide effort...
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    slavery ("Song of the Abolitionist" "No More Auction Block for Me", "Oh Freedom", and "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child", among others); and women's...
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    Pt. 1 (1962)". AllMusic. Netaktion, LLC. Retrieved January 31, 2021. "Freedom Songs: Selma, Alabama". Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. Smithsonian Institution...
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    Medgar Evers (category Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients)
    call and the fight for freedom, dignity and justice not just for his people but all people. Evers was identified as a Freedom hero by The My Hero Project...
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    minister Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963. In the speech, King called for civil and economic rights...
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    Prize" "Oh, Freedom" "This Little Light of Mine" "We Shall Not Be Moved" "We Shall Overcome" "Woke Up This Morning (With My Mind Stayed On Freedom)" Influences...
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    poems "aaj srishti sukher ullase" Oh Freedom Freedom, you're The classic verses of Tagore, timeless lyrics. Freedom, you're Kazi Nazrul a great man with...
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    their enslavement. Fard stated that African Americans could regain their freedoms through self-independence and cultivation of their own culture and civilization...
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    1939 Missouri Sharecroppers' Strike, were documented in the newsreel Oh Freedom After While. The plight of a sharecropper was addressed in the song Sharecropper's...
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    televised concert, were released in 1997 by Island Records. The Long Road to Freedom: An Anthology of Black Music, a huge multi-artist project recorded by RCA...
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    wouldn't have been around here in 1961, when we decided to take a ride for freedom and ended segregation in interstate travel. King repeated the phrase "If...
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    Thurgood Marshall (category Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients)
    the greatest leaders in the history of the African-American struggle for freedom and equality".: 218  A 1999 survey of black political scientists listed...
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  • Accompanying written materials for the series, Eyes on the Prize and Voices of Freedom (for the second time period), exhaustively explore the major figures and...
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    segregation bills. Claiming that Little Rock had to assert their rights and freedom against the federal decision, in September 1958, Faubus signed acts that...
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    reasons. Her a cappella performance of the traditional spiritual "Oh Freedom" retitled "Freedom Song" on the original Soul to Soul LP soundtrack is only available...
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    Masters/Razor & Tie (DVD 2009) Golden Hits: Live Collection, Blueline (DVD 2013) Oh Freedom: Live in London, Hudson Street (DVD 2014) 75th Birthday Celebration, Razor...
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    It Burn" for the Birds Eye Riddim compilations. In 2012, her single, "Oh Freedom" for the Soundtrack for a Revolution was released on January 3, 2012....
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  • The Court's opinion reflected the jurisprudence of property rights and freedom of contract as embodied in the earlier precedent it established in Lochner...
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  • "we shall enter upon an era of constitutional law, when the rights of freedom and American citizenship cannot receive from the nation that efficient...
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    Prize" "Oh, Freedom" "This Little Light of Mine" "We Shall Not Be Moved" "We Shall Overcome" "Woke Up This Morning (With My Mind Stayed On Freedom)" Influences...
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    Ruby Bridges Hall," Online NewsHour, February 18, 1997 Susannah Abbey. Freedom Hero: Ruby Bridges Ellen Blue, St. Mark's and the Social Gospel: Methodist...
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