Stax Music History
A Change to Come Brown vs. Board of Education, the Montgomery, Alabama Bus Boycott, along with the 1963 March on Washington were some of the historical events that influenced Jazz, R&B, Soul, and Gospel/Spiritual music. Jazz and Gospel music had a great effect on the 1963 Era. Stax artists also respected political messages. I feel that these songs were very helpful to this era.
During the Civil Rights Movement, there were three particular events that influenced the music of the 1960s. In 1954, Linda Brown, an eight-year-old African-American girl, had been denied permission to attend an elementary school only five blocks from her home in Topeka, Kansas. Her parents filed a lawsuit to force the schools to admit her to the nearby, but segregated, school for white students. Finally, Chief Justice Warren gave the verdict saying that, “We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal…. segregation [in public education] is a denial of the equal protection of the laws.” August 24, 1955, fourteen-year-old Emmett Till was visiting his relatives in Money, Mississippi, when he was accused of flirting with a white cashier at a grocery store. Four days later, two white men kidnapped him, beat him, and shot him in the head. The men were tried for murder, but an all-white, male jury acquitted them. Later that December a woman named Rosa Parks was arrested, because she would not give up her seat in the front of the bus, to a white man. This led to the start of the Montgomery, Alabama Bus Boycott and the rise of heroic leader, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. August 28, 1963, two to three hundred thousand people marched in Washington D.C. where Dr. Martin Luther King gave his famous “I Have a Dream” speech. As a result, African Americans were finally rewarded their rights.
These events influenced African American artists through their music to express their feelings towards the
During the Civil Rights Movement, there were three particular events that influenced the music of the 1960s. In 1954, Linda Brown, an eight-year-old African-American girl, had been denied permission to attend an elementary school only five blocks from her home in Topeka, Kansas. Her parents filed a lawsuit to force the schools to admit her to the nearby, but segregated, school for white students. Finally, Chief Justice Warren gave the verdict saying that, “We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal…. segregation [in public education] is a denial of the equal protection of the laws.” August 24, 1955, fourteen-year-old Emmett Till was visiting his relatives in Money, Mississippi, when he was accused of flirting with a white cashier at a grocery store. Four days later, two white men kidnapped him, beat him, and shot him in the head. The men were tried for murder, but an all-white, male jury acquitted them. Later that December a woman named Rosa Parks was arrested, because she would not give up her seat in the front of the bus, to a white man. This led to the start of the Montgomery, Alabama Bus Boycott and the rise of heroic leader, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. August 28, 1963, two to three hundred thousand people marched in Washington D.C. where Dr. Martin Luther King gave his famous “I Have a Dream” speech. As a result, African Americans were finally rewarded their rights.
These events influenced African American artists through their music to express their feelings towards the