Martin Luther King Song

Members of oppressed groups sometimes coalesce to fight against the harsh economic and political realities and injustices imposed on them. This kind of fight took place during the Civil Rights Movement in America.

The Civil Rights Movement was in its peak from 1955-1965. Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, guaranteeing basic civil rights for all Americans, regardless of race, after nearly a decade of nonviolent protests and marches, ranging from the 1955-1956 Montgomery bus boycott to the student-led sit-ins of the 1960s to the huge March on Washington in 1963”