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Thread #104999   Message #2163970
Posted By: topical tom
04-Oct-07 - 06:05 PM
Thread Name: African American Protest Slogans & Songs
Subject: RE: African American Protest Slogans & Songs
One well-known slogan in a song is "keep your eyes on the prize,hold on ".I well remember this being sung so well by Guy Carawan, a prominent figure in the civil rights movement.I first heard it sung by Guy at a folk festival in Kingsland Bay State Park, on Lake champlain in Vermont.I had heard him sing at Bishop's Unvivesity 40 years before!As Utah Philips humorously quipped he was a "   walking suppository of
knowledge " about the history of that song.