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Amazing Grace
Song about being delivered from slavery -
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Call and Response
This music kept slaes hopeful for freedom from their opression. -
Start of Civil War
War to end slavery, freed slaves
Call and response music used to boost slaves hopes for freedom -
End of Civil War
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Start of Jim Crow Laws
Laws legalizing discrimination of African Americans.
Started age of segregation in southern United States.
Various music genres: Gospel, blues, Jazz, Rock and Roll used to protest laws. -
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Jazz
Descended from African spirituals, grew up in New Orleans. -
Billie Holidays Strange Fruit
About the horrors of lynchings in the south -
World War 2 ends
Some African American vetreans expect to be treated differently now tha they have served their country, this largely does not happen. Jazz and Blues emphasized this gap in expectations with their sad melodies -
Choo Choo Ch'booogie
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Rock and Roll
A fusion of Blues and Jazz and Country. This Music combined musical cultures to create a whole new sound dedicated to self expression and change -
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Civil Rights Movement
A movement dedicated to bringing equal rights to people of color. -
Martin Luther Kings I have a dream speech
This speech further publicized the need for racial equality in a world that would listen no other way. After the speech protestors began singing to show their unity in their cause. -
Civil rights act
Laws
