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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