From Billie Holiday to Mahalia Jackson and Aretha Franklin, and from Curtis Mayfield and Sly Stone to Gil Scott-Heron, Freedom Songs documents how a few daring musical innovators stood at the vortex of two revolutions-one cultural, the other musical—and forever changed America and the world.
Watch Freedom Songs: Music of the Civil Rights Movement, tonight at 7:30pm on GBH 2.
Credit: Courtesy of Library of Congress
