Songs from Farming While Black

 
 

This video features the song "Lord Hold My Hand While I Run This Race" from the 1997 album "Voices of the Civil Rights Movement: Black American Freedom Songs 1960-1966" on Smithsonian Folkways.

From the Evening Concerts At Newport, Vol. 1...Vanguard/Orizzonte ORL 8197 (1964) http://www.wirz.de/music/newpofrm.htm Recorded live at the Newport Folk Festival, on July 26, 1963; The Freedom Singers: Bernice Johnson, Rutha Harris, Cordell Hull Reagon and Charles Neblitt No folk-song trend of the last few years aroused so much attention as the use of "freedom songs" in the Negro civil rights movement.