In honor of Juneteenth, post your favorite civil rights songs here

[Clash City Rocker]

Cross posted from the Music Appreciation group, for greater visibility.

This is my all time favorite. The great Solomon Burke, backed by the Blind Boys of Alabama.

A little church for you here. I’ve sung this song in church, but that version didn’t do the song justice. This version does.

This a sort of angry response to the Beatles, which made me rethink the original song.

[Ferrets are Cool]

1. Without a doubt...

"'Freedom' has become the anthem of youth wherever I go," Havens told DISCoveries magazine in 1994. "But I'll sing it for the rest of my life, if only to show the rest of the world what I think an American is. Sometimes I think we don't know ourselves. But people are all the same, everywhere. They laugh in the same places, even if they don't know the language."

[Patterson]

2. Nina Simone again.

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