How did music affect the civil rights movement?
In the 1950s and 1960s African Americans wanted and were fighting to have the same rights as white people. They wanted to be able to eat in the same places, use the same buses, use the same restrooms, use the same water fountains, and wanted to opportunity to vote without have taxes and reading tests.
Why was music such a powerful force? Because it got their point across in a fancy and emotional way and people can connect to music easier than speeches and some of the verses are repetetive to drill their point in.
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