#534 Music of the Civil Rights Era

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🗓️ 19 February 2016

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Music played an essential role in uplifting, motivating, and uniting people during the Civil Rights era of the 1950s and '60s. In honor of Black History Month, hosts Jim and Greg explore the powerful music of the Civil Rights Movement, from Mahalia Jackson to Curtis Mayfield and beyond.

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0:00.0	There had been abuse in my family, but it was mostly musical in nature. I don't want any of this lovers lament crap. I want something peppy, something happy, something up temple, I want something peppy something happy something up temple I want something snappy. Music has always had the power to uplift and unite people for the common good and
0:41.8	perhaps this case has never been stronger than during the fight for and
0:43.0	unite people for the common good and perhaps this case has never been stronger than during the fight for civil rights.
0:45.6	I'm Greg Cott and I'm Jim De Regattis.
0:48.1	We celebrate Black History Month with a look at the music of the civil rights movement that's coming up on sound opinions.
1:01.2	This is sound opinions.
1:03.0	I have a dream that one day, even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice,
1:16.9	sweltering with the heat of oppression
1:20.0	will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
1:24.1	I have a dream.
1:29.1	My poor little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their
1:38.3	character.
1:39.3	I have a dream today. You're listening to sound opinions. I'm Greg Cott here with Jim De Regottis and that's Martin
1:47.4	Luther King Jr. with his famous I Have a Dream speech. A King spoke those words
1:51.8	standing in front of the Lincoln Memorial in August 28th, 1963.
1:56.2	They're words that many of us have had to memorize in school, ones that we've echoed to
2:00.0	our children, and when we think of the civil rights era perhaps that's the sound and
2:04.5	image that come to mind first but we're going to argue today that the music made an
2:08.6	equally powerful impact the March on Washington in August of 63, hundreds of thousands of African Americans, mostly
2:16.8	African Americans converging there, some say as high as 300,000, one of the largest gatherings of African Americans in this country's history to witness
2:26.5	a series of speeches by the country's civil rights leaders, but an important component of that event was the music. The soundtrack for the
2:35.8	revolution was occurring at the same time as the revolution. The music was
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