My Song Is My Weapon: The Long Sonic History of Black ResistanceSmithsonian Folkways Recordings

  1. The Struggle

    Langston Hughes

    03:25

  2. Been in the Storm

    Bernice Johnson Reagon

    03:03

  3. Down Here Lord, Waitin' on You

    Jake Field, Eastman Brand, and Arthur Holifield

    02:09

  4. Jesus Knows All About My Troubles

    The Moving Star Hall Singers

    03:20

  5. Harriet Tubman

    Margaret Walker

    07:04

  6. Steal Away to Jesus

    Kinsey West

    01:54

  7. Wade in the Water

    Ella Jenkins

    04:04

  8. The Ballad of the Free

    Margaret Walker

    02:52

  9. Great Camp Meeting

    The Fisk Jubilee Singers

    02:07

  10. Oh Freedom

    The Princely Players

    02:08

  11. No More Auction Block for Me

    Paul Robeson & Alan Booth

    02:11

  12. Ain't Gonna Pick No More Cotton

    Warner Williams, Jay Summerour

    03:47

  13. Ida B. Wells-Barnett: Lynching, Our National Crime

    Ruby Dee

    13:26

  14. Strange Fruit

    Brother John Sellers

    02:23

  15. I’m Going to Write the Governor of Georgia

    Champion Jack Dupree

    03:16

  16. Jim Crow Blues

    Lead Belly

    03:30

  17. Complaint Call

    Unspecified

    00:42

  18. I'm Goin' Up North

    East York School (Ala.)

    01:26

  19. Traveling Blues

    Ma Rainey

    02:47

  20. Jungle Drums

    James P. Johnson

    02:36

  21. Black and Tan Fantasy - Victor session

    Duke Ellington

    03:11

  22. Black, Brown and White (intro)

    Big Bill Broonzy

    01:25

  23. Black, Brown and White

    Big Bill Broonzy

    02:44

  24. Prayer

    Langston Hughes

    00:18

  25. Stand By Me

    Lou Bell Johnson

    03:24

  26. The Children of the Poor (Sonnet No.2)

    Gwendolyn Brooks

    00:54

  27. Stockyard Blues

    Johnny Young, Big Walter Horton

    03:24

  28. Rent Strike Blues

    Jimmy Collier

    04:51

  29. High Rise Tenements

    Serious Bizness

    03:25

  30. Does Jesus Care

    Horace Boyer and Donald Vails

    03:50

  31. I Too

    Langston Hughes

    00:34

  32. The House I Live In

    Josh White

    02:19

  33. Old Glory's Story

    Serious Bizness

    03:31

  34. My People Is

    Nancy Dupree

    04:17

  35. Shaw 'Nuff

    Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Quintette

    03:03

  36. Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams - 2007 Remaster

    Sarah Vaughan

    02:33

  37. Moanin'

    Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers

    09:30

  38. Things Gonna Get Better - Version 1

    Bee Houston

    03:09

  39. For My People

    Margaret Walker

    05:54

  40. Children, Go Where I Send Thee

    Odetta and Frank Christian

    02:57

  41. Which Side are You On?

    The Freedom Singers

    03:47

  42. Medgar Evers Speaking

    Medgar Wiley Evers

    01:10

  43. Yes We Want Our Freedom

    Cleo Kennedy and Carlton Reese

    02:23

  44. We are Soldiers in the Army

    The Montgomery Improvement Association

    02:33

  45. On Being a Sharecropper

    Fannie Lou Hamer

    05:10

  46. Woke up This Morning

    Fannie Lou Hamer

    02:31

  47. I Have a Dream

    Mary Lou Williams

    01:59

  48. Nina Giving Mr. Backlash the Blues

    Sarah Webster Fabio

    01:45

  49. Mississippi Goddam

    Nina Simone

    05:30

  50. Angela Davis: I Am a Black Revolutionary Woman, 1971

    Ruby Dee

    10:08

  51. Joan Little

    Bernice Johnson Reagon

    03:25

  52. How Many More?

    Serious Bizness

    04:06

  53. Coretta Scott King: The Right to a Decent Life and Human Dignity, 1971

    Ruby Dee

    07:54

  54. Fight The Power

    EPublic Enemy

    04:42