10 powerful songs that inspired the civil rights movement

Eyes On The Prize

In the wake of the Montgomery Bus Boycott which sought to end segregation and unfair treatment of blacks on city buses, this was the music that was sung during meetings to encourage black folks as they boycotted buses to walk on their feet for almost a year. It is said that those meetings attracted a lot of people who came just to hear the music.

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