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