THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
Musician: Pete Seeger
Seeger sang "Take it from Dr. King," which is a song about Martin Luther King Jr. leading peaceful bus boycotts and about how each and every person can join the effort and help with the battle for black Civil Rights. The song ties into the period by showing the great effort put forth by leaders to gain help in their situation in fighting for Civil Rights.
Artist: Joe Overstreet
Joe Overstreet published a piece of artwork called New Jemima that pictures a black woman holding a gun and shooting it at the world. It shows that the new way that white people depicted blacks were that they were trying to ruin the world with their fight for Civil Rights. It embodies the time period because many white people were against black Civil Rights and saw blacks as a threat to their own world.
Writer: James Baldwin
James Baldwin wrote Go Tell it on the Mountain which was a coming of age story which reflected the confines that society had on a young black man. The novel portrayed the Civil Rights Movement because people were finally waking up and realizing, just like someone does when they come of age, that there needed to be a change and they were trying to find that change within a restricting community.
Musician: Pete SeegerSeeger sang "Take it from Dr. King," which is a song about Martin Luther King Jr. leading peaceful bus boycotts and about how each and every person can join the effort and help with the battle for black Civil Rights. The song ties into the period by showing the great effort put forth by leaders to gain help in their situation in fighting for Civil Rights.
Artist: Joe Overstreet
Joe Overstreet published a piece of artwork called New Jemima that pictures a black woman holding a gun and shooting it at the world. It shows that the new way that white people depicted blacks were that they were trying to ruin the world with their fight for Civil Rights. It embodies the time period because many white people were against black Civil Rights and saw blacks as a threat to their own world.
Writer: James Baldwin
James Baldwin wrote Go Tell it on the Mountain which was a coming of age story which reflected the confines that society had on a young black man. The novel portrayed the Civil Rights Movement because people were finally waking up and realizing, just like someone does when they come of age, that there needed to be a change and they were trying to find that change within a restricting community.
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