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Online Jukebox: Songs of the Civil Rights Movement
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All previous issues of History Now are available here
Different Perspectives on the Civil Rights Movement
by Anthony J. Badger
"People Get Ready": Music and the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s
by Brian Ward
A Local and National Story: The Civil Rights Movement in Postwar Washington, D.C.
by Wendell E. Pritchett
African American Religious Leadership and the Civil Rights Movement
by Clarence Taylor
The Civil Rights Movement: Major Events and Legacies
by James T. Patterson
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