For me, jazz will always be the soundtrack of the civil rights movement.
When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement.
Soul lyrics, soul music came at about the same time as the civil rights movement, and it's very possible that one influenced the other.
I think the Civil Rights Movement changed that trajectory for me. The first thing I did was leave school. I was suspended for my participation in Movement demonstrations in my hometown, December, 1961.
The Stonewall riot may have been the start of a civil rights movement, but it was not the beginning of our history.
During the 60's, I was, in fact, very concerned about the civil rights movement.
I was born after the Civil Rights Movement. I never saw Martin Luther King alive.
It was a particularly interesting and exciting time, and the European political and artistic establishment was turned on by the Civil Rights Movement and the artistic revolution that was becoming a part of jazz.
There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement.
The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.
Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements. There wouldn't have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968. It was enormous, in terms o...
The civil rights movement was based on faith. Many of us who were participants in this movement saw our involvement as an extension of our faith. We saw ourselves doing the work of the Almighty. Segregation and racial discrimination were not in keepi...
The civil rights movement was very important in my house, and then Vietnam was very important 'cause there were two boys, so I came of age during a very heated political climate.
There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.
The Klan had used fear, intimidation and murder to brutally oppress over African-Americans who sought justice and equality and it sought to respond to the young workers of the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the same way.
Well, it's the last step of the civil rights movement: You know, wrap your hands around some money, right?
My parents both were doing the Civil Rights Movement, were very involved with the civil rights to Congress. And my friends' parents were as well.
We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American community.
Like most Americans of my age, I was very impressed by the dynamic capacities of the law, demonstrated by the Civil Rights Movement and then Watergate, animated by Sam Ervin's mantra that no person is above the law.
If Willie Nelson had been Rosa Parks, there never would have been a civil rights movement in this country, because he refuses to leave the back of the bus.
I had very little exposure to business growing up. I also was very focused on the Civil Rights Movement. And I saw law as a vehicle to really bring about substantial change.
