Empowering Anthems: How African-American Folk Music Fueled the Civil Rights Movement

Name Instructor Course Date History 21: Homework Assignment #2 Essay 1 The songs are a clear indication that the African-Americans were determined to abandon their slavery life and enjoy freedom privileges that the white Americans were enjoying. Based on the reading, it is open that such folk music aimed at passing on a strong message against injustice and discrimination urging the people of color to act and move out of such enslaving life through embracing civil rights movements. “We shall overcome” by Baez was based on a religious hymn thus becoming central to the civil rights movement as well as sung at churches and in the south to communicate to both the whites and the people of color on the need to eradicate inequalities that the people were experiencing as human. The message in this son was so clear “we are not afraid today, oh, deep in my heart I believe we shall overcome.” Such a message aimed at motivating the people of color on the need to fight for their freedom as well as warning the whites that their manipulation time was coming to an end. On the other hand, the people get ready song, the author warned the whites telling them “there aint no room for the hopeless sinners who would hurt all mankind just to save his own…,” such a