King considered the Impressions' song "People Get Ready" the unofficial anthem of the civil rights movement. More music: How Congress got these local music venues through COVID-19 shutdown People marched to freedom songs while artists from Sam Cooke to Dylan took the message to the masses in recordings as enduring as "A Change is Gonna Come" and "Blowin' in the Wind." Music clearly played a starring role in the civil rights movement. He has endowed his creatures with the capacity to create, and from this capacity has flowed the sweet songs of sorrow and joy that have allowed man to cope with his environment and many different situations." "God has wrought many things out of oppression.
In a piece he wrote for the 1964 Berlin Jazz Festival, King had this to say about the role of music in our lives: The March on Washington in 1963, where King delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech, featured live performances by Peter, Paul and Mary, Harry Belafonte, Marian Anderson, Mahalia Jackson, Joan Baez and Bob Dylan, just to name a few. had a deep respect for music as an instrument of change. View Gallery: Gallery: Best civil rights songs from 1939 to the present
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