Let me take a big step back through time. I was involved in the Civil Rights Movement from 1963 to 1969, and singing was a central part of it. That's something that's too easily forgotten today. Singing was everywhere, and to the musicians who got the most respect from the Movement rank-and-file were themselves activists who came out of the Movement, not just supporters who came to "entertain the troops." Among the musicians I remember best were Len Chandler (who wrote Move On Over or We'll Move On Over You), Rev. Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick (Everybody's Got a Right to Live), Jimmy Collier (Burn, Baby, Burn), Guy and Candy Carawan, and above all the SNCC Freedom Singers (Matt Jones, Cordell Reagon, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Ruth Harris, and Charles Neblett).