Horton produced and performed music for 19 PBS films by Ken Burns, among other notable projects. He told News Channel 11 that many songs from the Civil War were documented and have been a focal ...

An African American woman's voice, a child of Southwest Georgia, a voice raised in song, born in the struggle against racism in America during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s ...

Aretha Franklin grew up in 1950s Detroit, surrounded from childhood by the now-famous faces of the civil rights movement. Her songs would ... and voice - for African American civil rights ...

Folk music also played an influential role in environmental political efforts and anti-war protests during the United States' engagement in Vietnam. Smithsonian Folkways Recordings playlists, Sounds ...