Music: The Impact Of The Civil Rights Movement

It is incrediblely apparent the impact that the civil rights movement had on us as a nation, as a whole. Not just among african americans, but for all people. It came after a period of our history that was drawn on for decades, segregated and sperated into groups of color, skin tones that were hasted upon and dictated by law, as to what was and was not allowed under those specifications. Thsi revolutionary time is a permanant fixture on the american culture itself. It represented courage to take on and face violent persecutions and set long held injustices right, to create equality. Music was a powerful and moving force for this time, not only on culture, but on a social and economic level as well, it was a force that lived through media

It was a time when every sound you could imagine began to surface, and everything was new and ever changing. People began coming together for a greater good, and utilized their popularity to deliver their messages of desperation to change the times. Musicians used their voices to say what everyone listening wish that they could, it brought communities together for strength and support, it made people look into themselves and really consider what the real differences were, because when it comes down to it, the things that make us different tend to hold less power than the essential things that we all have in common. During this movement, joined communities rose with a like frustration, because enough was enough and change was needed. Music of the time held obvious social implications

above and beyond the artistic ones. Music of the time took to turn an oppressed race into a power house and to turn its back on a closed minded and inhumane white American society. These songs came out at a time when the Civil Rights Movement was undergoing some major changes. The
Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 were landmarks in ensuring the political franchise for blacks in America, but now