History Now Essay "People Get Ready": Music and the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s Brian Ward Government and Civics 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ Few sights or sounds conjure up the passion and purposefulness of the Southern Civil Rights Movement as powerfully as the freedom songs that provided a stirring musical accompaniment to the campaign for racial justice and equality in... Appears in: 8 | The Civil Rights Movement Summer 2006
History Now Essay A Right Deferred: African American Voter Suppression after Reconstruction Marsha J. Tyson Darling Government and Civics In the United States, voting is a constitutionally protected right and an essential symbol of meaningful political participation in our nation’s electoral processes of governing. The right to vote and to have one’s vote count toward... Appears in: 51 | The Evolution of Voting Rights Summer 2018 57 | Black Voices in American Historiography Summer 2020