By Matt Silver
On this MLK Day, we honor not just Dr. King’s words and actions but those of the broader struggle for civil rights. And we do so, in our small part, by pairing the stories of that era with the artistic response they incited.
Undoubtedly, the tragedies of that period shaped artistic expression as much as the triumphs, if not more so. The 1963 bombing of the 16th St. Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala. is no exception. We invite you to read a bit about the tragedy below and engage with the following musical statements, handpicked by our on-air hosts for this MLK Day.
Charles Mingus’s Town Hall Concerts
Ramsey Lewis’s “Wade in the Water”
Babs Gonzales’s “We Ain’t Got Integration”
Max Roach’s “Let Thy People Go"
Read full article at: Honoring Martin Luther King, the Civil Rights Movement, and its Soundtrack