songs

A

B

"Blackbird" by John Lennon & Paul McCartney

"Brother, Can You Spare a Dime" by E.Y. "Yip" Harburg and Jay Gorney

"By the Time I Get to Arizona" by Chuck D & DJ Spooky

C

"Can You Get to That?" by Funkadelic

"A Change Is Gonna Come" by Sam Cooke

"Click Song (Qongqothwane)" performed by Miriam Makeba

"Coffin for Head of State" by Fela Kuti

D

"Dancing in the Street" by William "Mickey" Stevenson, recorded by Martha and the Vandellas

"Democracy" by Leonard Cohen

E

"Everybody Knows" by Leonard Cohen

F

"Fables of Faubus" by Charles Mingus

"Four Women" by Nina Simone

"Freedom Suite" by the Max Roach 5tet, with Abbey Lincoln

G

"Gumboots" by Paul Simon

I

"I Asked Her for Water (She Gave Me Gasoline)" by Wilie Dixon, performed by Howlin' Wolf

L

"The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll" by Bob Dylan

O

"Only a Pawn in their Game" by Bob Dylan

P

"Panis et Circenses" by Os Mutantes

"Plane Wreck at Los Gatos" by Woody Guthrie

R

"Respect" by Otis Redding (& famously covered by Aretha Franklin)

"The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" by Gil Scott-Heron"

S

"Strange Fruit" by Abel Meeropol

T

"The Harder They Come" by Jimmy Cliff

"Toxika" by Plastic People of the Universe

W

"(What Did I Do To Be So) Black and Blue" by Fats Waller, performed by Louis Armstrong

"What's Going On" by Marvin Gaye

"Whitey on the Moon" by Gil Scott-Heron

Songs of the Civil Rights Movement (Smithsonian Folkways)

Right: Miriam Makeba performing "Click Song (Qongqothwane)"
-- from Soul Power