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The series "Dedicated to the Proposition - The March to Equality" included a number of archival songs.

Music in Every Episode:

"Freedom In the Air" performed by Bernice Johnson-Reagon for the album Give Your Hands to Struggle

"Freedom Medley" from the album Voices of the Civil Rights Movement, Black American Freedom Songs 1960-1966. Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.

The piano music is "Oh Freedom" performed by Dominique Fauchard for the album Piano Spirituals : La Magie Des Plus Beaux Negro Spirituals Au Piano

Thursday JANUARY 15, 2009

March on Washington recording of "If I Had a Hammer", performed by Peter, Paul and Mary. Recording provided by the artist.

"Blowing in the Wind" performed by Peter, Paul and Mary

Friday, January 16, 2009 Beyond Civil Rights: Interview with Donna Richardson

"Get Your Rights, Jack" performed by the CORE Freedom Singers and "Which Side Are You On?" performed by the SNCC Freedom Singers led by Cordell Reagon. Both songs are on the album, Voices of the Civil Rights Movement: Black American Freedom Songs 1960-1966

Monday, January 19, 2009 One Freedom Singer: Interview with Bernice Reagon-Johnson

Album:  Voices of the Civil Rights Movement: Black American Freedom Songs 1960-1966
Smithsonian Folkways

  • Woke Up This Morning with My Mind On Freedom, perfomred by the SNCC Freedom Singers led by Bernice Johnson)
  • Been In The Storm So Long, performed by Bernice Johnson
  • We Shall Not Be Moved, performed by the SNCC Freedom Singers led by Rutha Harris
  • Ain' Gonna Lt Nobody Turn Me 'Round, performed by the SNCC Freedom Singers led by Cordell Reagon
  • Uncle Tom's Prayer, performed ed by Cordell Reagon
  • This Little Light of Mine performed by the SNCC Freedom Singers led by Bernice Johnson

The program also featured music from the album River of Life/Harmony: One (Bernice Reagon-Johnson,1972)

Tuesday, January 20, 2009 Interview with Gurdon Brewster

"The Gospel Train" (2002)
Third Creek Baptist Church and Bob Carlin
Album: African-American Note Choirs of Alexander County, North Carolina
Available in the Southern Folklife Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Wilson Library.

"Ain't Gone Let Nobody Turn Me Around" (2001)
SNCC Freedom Singers
Album: Every Tone a Testimony

"I Am Headed For the Promised Land" (2002)
Eugene H. Whitt
Album: African-American Note Choirs of Alexander County, North Carolina
Available in the Southern Folklife Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Wilson Library.

"How Do You Do Ev'rybody?" (2001)
Ella Jenkins and Nannie McNeil
Album: The Long Road to Freedom: An Anthology of Black Music
"O, Lord, I'm Waitin' On You" (2005)

"Valentine Pringle"
Album: The Long Road to Freedom: An Anthology of Black Music

"Precious Lord, Take My Hand" (2005)
The Long Sisters
Album: Set Your Fields on Fire: A collection of Sacred Music, Vol. 1

"I Believe I'll Praise" (2007)
The Piney Grove Baptist Church
Album: Set Your Fields on Fire: A collection of Sacred Music, Vol. 2