“The civil rights movement in the United States was a decades-long struggle by African Americans and their like-minded allies to end institutionalized racial discrimination, disenfranchisement, and racial segregation in the United States.”
The Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s came about out of the need and desire for equality and freedom for African Americans and other people of color. Nearly one hundred years after slavery was abolished, there was widespread segregation, discrimination, disenfranchisement and racially motivated violence that permeated all personal and structural aspects of life for black people.
https://www.loc.gov/collections/civil-rights-history-project/
“African American spirituals, gospel, and folk music all played an important role in the Civil Rights Movement. Singers and musicians collaborated with ethnomusicologists and song collectors to disseminate songs to activists, both at large meetings and through publications. They sang these songs for multiple purposes: to motivate them through long marches, for psychological strength against harassment and brutality, and sometimes to simply pass the time when waiting for something to happen.“
Music in the 1960s was influenced by the civil rights movement in order to send a message to those in power and the public that all races were equal and music displayed that.
Civil rights notes:-
-1964 Civil Rights Act
-Integration of schools and public places
-Martin Luther King “I have a dream” 1963
-Malcolm X
-Ruby Bridges went into white school and got escorted out by four armed federal marshals.
-Bloody Sunday