American Decades
The Civil Rights Movement in Art
"An Appeal to You from … to March on Washington"
Flyer
By: March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
Date: 1963
Source: "An Appeal to You from … to March on Washington." March on Washington, ARVF, Special Collections, Michigan State University, 1963.
About the Movement: The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom was organized by several leading civil rights advocates, including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Conceived by A. Phillip Randolph, the march took place August 28,1963.
"Blowin' in the Wind"
Song
By: Bob Dylan
Date: 1962
Source: Dylan, Bob. "Blowin' in the Wind." The Peter Paul and Mary Song Book. New York: Pepamar Music Corp., n.d., 44–45.
About the Author: Bob Dylan (1942–) was born Robert Allen Zimmerman in Duluth, Minnesota. Dylan was interested in music from...
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1960's The Arts Primary Sources
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- "Heroine at Home"
- The American Dream
- Catch-22
- "All My Pretty Ones"
- The Civil Rights Movement in Art
- The Birds
- Where the Wild Things Are
- "A Hard Day's Night"
- Crying Girl
- Dutchman
- Creek
- Vietnam Poetry
- Red Cube
- House Made of Dawn
- Slaughterhouse-Five
- "Arthur Mitchell and the Dance Theater of Harlem"
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
