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Healdsburg Jazz Education Presents
A Study and Resource Guide for Students Part 2
“Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: Through the Eyes of Children Part 2”
Here is a link to our MLK DAY RESOURCE GUIDE PART 1
2 Table of Contents Introduction and Purpose Page 3 The Soul of the Movement Page 4 Playlist of Civil Rights and Freedom Songs Page 5 Free Download of original music Page 6 Time Line of Civil Rights Movement Page 7 Inspiring Quotes by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Page 9 Notable Children during the Civil Rights Movement Page 11 Key Words and Definitions Page 12 “118 Days” poetry by Enid Pickett Page 14
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Introduction and Purpose
Hello Students and Educators!
In preparing for MLK DAY 2021 and a
very special concert we are
presenting on the birthdate of Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15,
2021), Healdsburg Jazz is thrilled and
honored to share with you our free
MLK DAY 2021 Study guide Part 2 for
young students that contains the
following:
*Soul of the Movement by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
*Recommended Playlist of Civil Rights and Freedom Songs
*Brief timeline of the Civil Rights Movement
*Important Quotes by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
*A list of notable Children who impacted the Civil Rights Movement
*A glossary of key terms and definitions
*”118 Days” by Enid Pickett (Healdsburg Jazz 2021 Poet Laureate)
*Free digital downloads of original music!
Healdsburg Jazz is committed to the history and legacy of social movements
that have defined the roots and power of our music. We invite all students
and educators, families, and friends to save the dates of January 15, 2021 (7
pm-8 pm) and January 16, 2021 (12 pm-1pm) to witness our special virtual
concert online in celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthdate and
legacy. You can REGISTER now for this free concert for families and students.
4 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. “The Soul of the Movement" An important part of the mass meetings was the freedom songs. In a sense the freedom songs are the soul of the movement. They are more than just incantations of clever phrases designed to invigorate a campaign; they are as old as the history of the Negro in America. They are adaptations of songs the slaves sang-the sorrow songs, the shouts for joy, the battle hymns, and the anthems of our movement. I have heard people talk of their beat and rhythm, but we in the movement are as inspired by their words. "Woke Up This Morning with My Mind Stayed on Freedom" is a sentence that needs no music to make its point. We sing the freedom songs for the same reason the slaves sang them, because we too are in bondage and the songs add hope to our determination that "We shall overcome, Black and white together, we shall overcome someday." These songs bound us together, gave us courage together, helped us march together. We could walk toward any Gestapo force. We had cosmic companionship, for we were singing, "Come By Me, Lord, Come By Me. With this music, a rich heritage from our ancestors who had the stamina and the moral fiber to be able to find beauty in broken fragments of music, whose illiterate minds were able to compose eloquently simple expressions of faith and hope and idealism, we can articulate our deepest groans and passionate yearnings-and end always on a note of hope that God is going to help us work it out, right here in the South where evil stalks the life of a Negro from the time he is placed in his cradle. Through this music, the Negro is able to dip down into wells of a deeply pessimistic situation and danger-fraught circumstances and to bring forth a marvelous, sparkling, fluid optimism. He knows it is still dark in his world, but somehow, he finds a ray of light.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Playlist of Civil Rights and Freedom Songs Part 2
YouTube Playlist Part 2 link:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBeASdkkP1mNjdvVBEcEWg7cNRjVgPV5p
Spotify Playlist Part 2 link:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3xzkMGnbocnUvJElb8hGqk
Alicia Keys
Recommended Civil Rights Songs
Lift Every Voice and Sing Performed by Alicia Keys
Your Dog Loves my Dog The Nashville Quartet
This Little Light of Mine Fanny Lou Hamer
Get On Board Little Children Willie Peacock
Oh Freedom! The Golden Gospel Singers
Can’t Turn Me Around The Roots
When the Saints Go Marching In Louis Armstrong6 If You’re All For Freedom Sweet Honey In The Rock Sugar Chile Robinson Bob Marley We Shall Overcome The Aeolians Oakwood University Go Tell it on the Mountain Fannie Lou Hamer Get Up Stand Up Bob Marley God Bless the Child Billie Holiday All God’s Children Got Rhythm Whitey’s Lindy Hoppers Count Basie Sugar Chile Robinson (12 years old) Fingertips Part 2 Stevie Wonder (12 years old) NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert Joey Alexander (15 years old) Soul of the Movement Trailer Marcus Shelby Orchestra Keep Your Eyes on the Prize Tiffany Austin Trio Happy Birthday Stevie Wonder 2 Free Downloads!!! from the Marcus Shelby Orchestra Recording “Soul of the Movement: Meditations on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.” “Black Cab” and “Precious Lord, Take My Hand”
7 https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1xA5WTm9QuKRl1uxK-6K-pQbKA-AgmQTA?usp=sharing TIMELINE of Civil Rights Movement May 17, 1954: Brown v. Board of Education: a consolidation of five cases into one, is decided by the Supreme Court, effectively ending racial segregation in public schools. Many schools, however, remained segregated. August 28, 1955: Emmett Till, a 14-year-old from Chicago is brutally murdered in Mississippi for allegedly flirting with a white woman. His murderers are acquitted, and the case brings international attention to the civil rights movement after Jet magazine publishes a photo of Till’s beaten body at his open-casket funeral. December 1, 1955: Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus. Her defiant stance prompts a year-long Montgomery bus boycott. September 4, 1957: Nine black students known as the “Little Rock Nine” are blocked from integrating into Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. President Dwight D. Eisenhower eventually sends federal troops to escort the students, however, they continue to be harassed. September 9, 1957: Eisenhower signs the Civil Rights Act of 1957 into law to help protect voter rights. The law allows federal prosecution of those who suppress another’s right to vote. February 1, 1960: Four African American college students in Greensboro, North Carolina refuse to leave a Woolworth’s “whites only” lunch counter without being served. The Greensboro Four— Ezell Blair Jr., David Richmond, Franklin McCain and Joseph McNeil— were inspired by the nonviolent protest of Gandhi. The Greensboro Sit- In, as it came to be called, sparks similar “sit-ins” throughout the city and in other states. November 14, 1960: Six-year-old Ruby Bridges is escorted by four armed federal marshals as she becomes the first student to integrate
8 William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans. Her actions inspired Norman Rockwell’s painting The Problem We All Live With (1964). 1961: Black and white activists, known as freedom riders, took bus trips through the American South to protest segregated bus terminals and attempted to use “whites-only” restrooms and lunch counters. May 2, 1963: The Children’s March Hundreds of black kids joined the Civil Rights Movement by leaving school and marching, protesting, and getting arrested in Birmingham, Alabama on May 2 nd , 1963 in what was also known as “D Day” or the “Children’s Crusade.” August 28, 1963: Approximately 250,000 people take part in The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Martin Luther King gives his “I Have A Dream” speech as the closing address in front of the Lincoln Memorial, stating, “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.’” September 15, 1963: A bomb at 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama kills four young girls and injures several other people prior to Sunday services. The bombing fuels angry protests. July 2, 1964: President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law, preventing employment discrimination due to race, color, sex, religion or national origin. Title VII of the Act establishes the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to help prevent workplace discrimination. March 7, 1965: Bloody Sunday around 600 civil rights marchers walk to Selma, Alabama to Montgomery—the state’s capital—in protest of black voter suppression. Local police block and brutally attack them. After successfully fighting in court for their right to march, Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders lead two more marches and finally reach Montgomery on March 25. August 6, 1965: President Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to prevent the use of literacy tests as a voting requirement. It also allowed federal examiners to review voter qualifications and federal observers to monitor polling places.
9 April 4, 1968:Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated on the balcony of his hotel room in Memphis, Tennessee. James Earl Ray is convicted of the murder in 1969. Inspiring Quotes by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. "Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that." —Strength to Love, 1963 "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." — Strength to Love, 1963 “We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor, it must be demanded by the oppressed.” —“Letter from Birmingham Jail,” April 16, 1963 "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly." —“Letter from Birmingham Jail,” April 16, 1963 "Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope." —“I Have a Dream” speech, Washington, D.C., August 28, 1963
10 "Intelligence plus character — that is the goal of true education." “The time is always right to do what is right.” —Oberlin College commencement speech, 1965; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFbt7cO30jQ “Be a bush if you can't be a tree. If you can't be a highway, just be a trail. If you can't be a sun, be a star. For it isn't by size that you win or fail. Be the best of whatever you are.” Speech before a group of students at Barratt Junior High School in Philadelphia, October 26, 1967 “For when people get caught up with that which is right and they are willing to sacrifice for it, there is no stopping point short of victory.”— “I've Been to the Mountaintop” speech, April 3, 1968 "We've got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn't matter with me now because I've been to the mountaintop... I've looked over and I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land." —“I've Been to the Mountaintop” speech, April 3, 1968 "Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality." "Life's most persistent and urgent question, 'What are you doing for others?'" "Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness." “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character”. “We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools”. “Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase”. “I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood”. “Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals”.
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“Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom
eventually manifests itself”.
“I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by
the content of their character”.
Notable Children during the Civil Rights Movement
Emmett Till Claudette Colvin
Emmett Till: (age 14)
Ruby Bridges: (age 6)
Little Rock 9: (Elizabeth Eckford, Jefferson Thomas, Gloria Ray,
Thelma Mothershed, Melba Patillo, Terrance Roberts, Carlotta
Walls, Ernest Green, and Minniejean Brown)
Children’s March:
Claudette Colvin: (age 15): The First “Rosa Parks” March 1955
The March on Washington: August 28, 196312 Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombing: Birmingham, Alabama; September 15, 1963; Cynthia Wesley, Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson Sheyann Webb: “The Smallest Freedom Fighter” Selma, Alabama March 1965 (8 years old when she became involved in the Civil Rights Movement) Keywords and Definitions (The Civil Rights Movement) Abolitionist: A person that believes in anti-slavery in the United States of America. Black National Anthem: Lift Every Voice and Sing (Hymn) was first sung in honor or Abraham Lincoln’s birthday of February 12, 1900. Written by Rosamond Johnson and his brother, poet and writer James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938), the song is known today as the Black National Anthem. Following their history through song. “Lift Every Voice and Sing” is a moving tribute to the hopes, courage, and triumphs of the African-American People. Civil Rights Movement: African-Americans organized a movement that faced down powerful resistance that began during slavery to win the rights of justice and equality promised them by the United States Constitution.
13 Gospel Music: Christian Church Music. Spirituals, Shout Music, Gospel Blues, are a few that was examples of Gospel music. It was inspirational and popular during the Civil Rights Era. Juneteenth: a holiday celebrated on the 19 of June to commemorate the emancipation of enslaved people in the US. The holiday was first celebrated in Texas, where on that date in 1865, in the aftermath of the Civil War, slaves were declared free under the terms of the 1862 Emancipation Proclamation. Little Rock 9: Name given to the 9 Black Students who first integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957 Selma, Alabama: Historic city where three marches were held on the Edmund Pettus Bridge fifty years ago. Led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Congressman John Lewis. They marched with hundreds from around the country to protest the right to register to vote in the United States of America. One significant march was also known as “Bloody Sunday” on March 7, 1965. Justice: To demonstrate “a concern, peace, and genuine respect for people.” Freedom. The power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint.
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Equality: To demonstrate and illustrate what is equal. To have the same
status, rights, opportunities and quantity.
March: An organized act of walking, moving with a group of people to support
or protest something.
Freedom of Speech: A principle that supports the freedom of an individual or
community to articulate their opinions and ideas without fear of retaliation,
censorship, or legal sanction.
The Black Church: The body of congregations and denominations in the United
States that minister predominately to African-American, as well as their
collective traditions and members. The term can also refer to individual
congregations.
ENID PICKETT HEALDSBURG JAZZ POET LAUREATE 2021
“118 DAYS” (A poem about the Children’s March in 1963)
Click to access “118 Days”
Important dates to watch for:
1. Invite Students to watch our special free MLK Music Performance:
“MLK: Through the Eyes of Children”15
January 15, 2021 (7 pm-8 pm) and January 16, 2021 (12 pm-1 pm)
You can register now here: REGISTER
Feel free to share this study sheet with other classes, students, and schools.
Thank you and please feel free to contact us for more information at
info@healdsburgjazz.org
Marcus Shelby
Artistic Director Healdsburg Jazz
Enid Pickett
Healdsburg Jazz Poet LaureateYou can also read
