During the early 1960s, the Freedom Singers from Georgia performed throughout the country. The group mainly performed in hope of raising money to help the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and to spread awareness to their audiences about grassroots organizing. Most freedom songs were common hymns or spirituals familiar to the southern black community; the […]
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