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Thread #19551   Message #200083
Posted By: Hollowfox
23-Mar-00 - 03:38 PM
Thread Name: Gospel Origin-Civil Rights & Labor Songs
Subject: RE: Gospel Origin-Civil Rights & Labor Songs
(Slight thread creep warning) It's been a while since I read this, so I'm not sure if this takes the song from the labor movement to the civil rights movement, but I think it does: Hold the Fort! the story of a song from the sawdust trail to the picket line (1971, Smithsonian Institution Press; part of the Smithsonian Studies in History & Technology series (#9)