Two Trains Running: Civil Rights in the LBJ Years

By the way, what’s the big word?

Freedom Summer

He Was My Brother, Simon & Garfunkel

He was my brother Five years older than I

He was my brother Twenty-three years old the day he died

Freedom writer

They cursed my brother to his face "Go home, outsider

Mississippi's gonna be your buryin' place"

He was singing on his knees An angry mob trailed along They shot my brother dead

Because he hated what was wrong

He was my brother Tears can't bring him back to me

He, he was my brother And he died so his brothers could be

Oh, God, he died so his brothers could be free

Selma to Montgomery

The Life and Death of Malcolm X

Burn, baby, burn: Watts, California, 1965

New Voices of SNCC

H. Rap Brown

SNCC

Stokely Carmichael

SNCC and the Black Panther Party

New Voices of SNCC

Stokely Carmichael

SNCC and the Black Panther Party

“Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath. We ain't running no more.”

New Voices of SNCC

H. Rap Brown

SNCC

“We built this country, we'll burn it down if it don't do right.”

“Violence is as American as cherry pie.”

The Black Panther Party

Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up.

Huey Newton

"It's time to fight back", that's what Huey said.

2 shots in the dark now Huey's dead. I got love for my brother, but we can never

go nowhere unless we share with each other. We gotta

start makin' changes.Tupac, “Changes”

Drag the shades across the windowDon't answer any knock at the door

Keep your hand on the weapon beside youKeep your eyes out for the law

Don't you know and you gotta be all you can be

We're told to run towards the futureWhile they're standing on our feet

And be content with the scraps that they throw usAfter promising a feast

If you didn't have a gun then I wouldn't need a gun

The Boo Radleys, “Free Huey”