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My Song is My Weapon: A Sonic History of Black Resistance

Smithsonian Folkways

1 The Struggle Langston Hughes 3:25

2 Part I - The Struggle: Negroes with the Spanish Explorers Langston Hughes 2:28

3 Been in the Storm Bernice Johnson Reagon 3:03

4 Down Here Lord, Waitin' on You Jake Field, Eastman Brand, and Arthur Holifield 2:09

5 Jesus Knows All About My Troubles The Moving Star Hall Singers 3:20

6 Harriet Tubman Margaret Walker 7:04

7 Steal Away to Jesus Kinsey West 1:54

8 Wade in the Water Ella Jenkins 4:04

9 The Ballad of the Free Margaret Walker 2:52

10 Great Camp Meeting Fisk Jubilee Singers 2:07

11 Oh Freedom The Princely Players 2:08

12 No More Auction Block for Me Paul Robeson Alan Booth 2:11

13 Ain't Gonna Pick No More Cotton Warner Williams with Jay Summerour 3:47

14 Ida B. Wells-Barnett: Lynching, Our National Crime Ruby Dee 13:26

15 Strange Fruit Brother John Sellers 2:23

16 I’m Going to Write the Governor of Georgia Champion Jack Dupree 3:16

17 Jim Crow Blues Leadbelly 3:30

18 Complaint Call Enoch Brown 0:42

19 I'm Goin' up North East York School (Ala.) 1:26

20 Traveling Blues Ma Rainey 2:47

21 Jungle Drums James P. Johnson 2:36

22 Black And Tan Fantasy Duke Ellington 2:16

23 Black, Brown and White (intro) Big Bill Broonzy 1:25

24 Black, Brown and White Big Bill Broonzy 2:44

25 Prayer Langston Hughes 0:18

26 Stand By Me Lou Bell Johnson 3:24

27 The Children of the Poor (Sonnet No.2) Gwendolyn Brooks 0:54

28 Stockyard Blues Johnny Young Big Walter Horton 3:24

29 Rent Strike Blues Jimmy Collier 4:51

30 High Rise Tenements Serious Bizness 3:25

31 Does Jesus Care Horace Boyer, Donald Vails 3:50

32 I Too Langston Hughes 0:34

33 The House I Live In Josh White 2:42

34 Old Glory's Story Serious Bizness 3:31

35 My People Is Nancy Dupree 4:17

36 Shaw Nuff Charlie Parker Dizzy Gillespie 4:17

37 Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (2007 Remaster) Sarah Vaughan 2:33

38 Moanin' Art Blakey 9:33

39 Things Gonna Get Better (Version 1) Bee Houston 3:10

40 For My People Margaret Walker 5:54

41 Children, Go Where I Send Thee Odetta and Frank Christian 2:57

42 Which Side are You On? The Freedom Singers 3:47

43 Medgar Evers Speaking Medgar Wiley Evers 1:10

44 Yes We Want Our Freedom Cleo Kennedy and Carlton Reese 2:23

45 We are Soldiers in the Army The Montgomery Improvement Association 2:33

46 On Being a Sharecropper Fannie Lou Hamer 5:10

47 Woke up This Morning Fannie Lou Hamer 2:31

48 I Have a Dream Mary Lou Williams 1:59

49 Nina Giving Mr. Backlash the Blues Sarah Webster Fabio 1:45

50 Mississippi Goddam (Live) Nina Simone 6:50

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