Voices: How music propelled the civil rights movement
Capehart
The Washington Post
4.6 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2019
⏱️ 20 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | But how long long is prepared now? |
| 0:07.0 | You just know. I am Jonathan Kapart and this is Voices of the Movement, a series from my |
| 0:26.5 | podcast K-P-Up sharing the stories and lessons of some of the leaders of the |
| 0:30.9 | Civil Rights Movement and using them to figure out where we go from here. |
| 0:35.3 | On the faith and politics civil rights pilgrimage to Alabama every year, there are a few things |
| 0:40.1 | that remain the same. |
| 0:42.1 | The group always walks across the |
| 0:43.6 | Edmund Pettis bridge with Congressman John Lewis. You always visit the |
| 0:47.8 | Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.'s church in Montgomery, and you always |
| 0:52.1 | always hear music. |
| 0:54.0 | Music from church choirs. |
| 0:58.0 | Songs like this little light of mine. |
| 1:05.0 | Oh, in my heart. |
| 1:07.0 | Oh, in my heart. |
| 1:09.0 | Oh, in my home. |
| 1:11.0 | Yeah, I'm gonna let it shine. |
| 1:13.0 | All in my heart. |
| 1:15.0 | I'm going to let it shine. |
| 1:18.0 | And of course, we shall overcome. |
| 1:24.0 | We shall live in peace. |
| 1:27.0 | We shall live in peace. |
| 1:30.0 | We shall live in peace some day. |
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