Civil Rights Anthem - Additional Civil Rights Anthems

Additional Civil Rights Anthems

  • "A Change Is Gonna Come (song)": Composed and performed by Sam Cooke; #12 on the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list of Rolling Stone magazine
  • "Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me 'Round"
  • "Certainly Lord": based on a spiritual
  • "Hold On" (also known as "Keep Your Eye On The Prize"): Based on a spiritual
  • "If You Miss Me at the Back of the Bus": Adapted from a composition by Chico Neblett
  • "I'm Gonna Sit at the Welcome Table": Adapted from a Spiritual
  • "I Woke Up This Mornin'": Adapted from a Spiritual
  • "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing": Composed by James Weldon Johnson
  • "This Little Light of Mine": Originally a spiritual, associated with Fannie Lou Hamer.
  • "We shall not be moved": Also, likely originally, a labor union song.
  • "If I had a hammer": A labor union song by Pete Seeger and Lee Hays.

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