Photographs of the African American Civil Rights Movement

Monday, Oct 10

Literal Meaning: a clenched fist

Figurative/Symbolic Meaning: representation of black power, strength, and unity

I Have a Dream

The Ballot or The Bullet

Detroit Riots

Art of the African American Civil Rights Movement

Theme: •Struggle to be free in the United States•Trapped by the United States

Theme:•When trying to move forward as a group, find obstacles to overcome

Literal Meaning: a clenched fist

Figurative/Symbolic Meaning: representation of black power, strength, and unity

Theme:

Figurative/Symbolic Meaning: representation of black power, strength, and unity

Music of the African American Civil Rights Movement

Music• "Strange Fruit" by Billie Holiday Southern trees bear strange fruit

Blood on the leaves and blood at the rootBlack bodies swinging in the southern breezeStrange fruit hanging from the popular trees

Pastoral scene of the gallant southThe bulging eyes and the twisted mouth

Scent of magnolias, sweet and freshThen the sudden smell of burning flesh

Here is fruit for the crows to pluckFor the rain to gather, for the wind to suckFor the sun to rot, for the trees to dropHere is a strange and bitter cry

Music

• "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen" by Louis Armstrong

Nobody knows the trouble I've seenNobody knows but JesusNobody knows the trouble I've seenGlory Hallelujah-repeat verse-

Sometimes I'm up and sometimes I'm downYes lord, you know sometimes I'm almost to the groundO yes, Lord, still-verse 1-

You got here before I doO yes Lord, don't forget to tell all my friends I'm coming too

Music• "Fables of Fabulus" by Charles Mingus

• Oh, Lord, don't let 'em shoot us! Oh, Lord, don't let 'em stab us! Oh, Lord, don't let 'em tar and feather us! Oh, Lord, no more swastikas! Oh, Lord, no more Ku Klux Klan!

• Name me someone who's ridiculous, Danny. Governor Faubus!Why is he so sick and ridiculous? He won't permit integrated schools.

• Then he's a fool! Oh Boo! Boo! Nazi Fascist supremacistsBoo! Ku Klux Klan (with your Jim Crow plan)

• Name me a handful that's ridiculous, Danny. Faubus, Nelson Rockefeller, EisenhowerWhy are they so sick and ridiculous?

• Two, four, six, eight: They brainwash and teach you hate. H-E-L-L-O, Hello

Music• "What a Wonderful World" by Louis Armstrong

I see trees of green, red roses tooI see them bloom for me and youAnd I think to myself what a wonderful world.

I see skies of blue and clouds of whiteThe bright blessed day, the dark sacred nightAnd I think to myself what a wonderful world.

The colors of the rainbow so pretty in the skyAre also on the faces of people going byI see friends shaking hands saying how do you doThey're really saying I love you.

I hear babies cry, I watch them growThey'll learn much more than I'll never knowAnd I think to myself what a wonderful worldYes I think to myself what a wonderful world.