Series: Lest We Forget– Volume 2
Format: Vinyl, LP
Country: United States
Released: 1980
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Folk, Struggle & Protest
[Tracklist]
A1 Swing Down Sweet Chariot Melody: Cleo Kennedy and Choir (07:37)
A2 Ralph Abernathy speaking: Ralph Abernathy (13:18)
A3 I'm On My Way: Mamie Brown and Choir (03:30)
B1 City Called Heaven: Cleo Kennedy, Carlton Reese (09:37)
B2 Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking: Martin Luther King, Jr. (10:51)
B3 99 1/2 Won't Do: Carlton Reese and Choir (02:18)
B4 Ralph Abernathy speaking: Ralph Abernathy (02:46)
[Credits]
Liner Notes: Wyatt Tee Walker, Recorder: Candie Carawan and Guy Carawan, Photographer: Charles Moore
[Notes]
Songs played a large role in the movement to close the racial divide in America during the 1960s, and prayers, chants, sermons, and shouts were also fundamental to this task. Guy and Candie Carawan recorded Martin Luther King, Jr. and Ralph Albernathy speaking just after they were arrested for attempting to, as Caucasians, sing in a black church. Armed with only one microphone, they were fortunate enough to be released just in time to record the historic event heard here.
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