March 14, 2025 – The Ongoing History of Protest Music

Protest Music Hall of Fame: We Shall Overcome – Pete Seeger and Joan Baez

Joan Baez performing at the March on Washington, August 28, 1963. Photo Credit: Scherman, Rowland, U.S. Information Agency. Press and Publications Service "We shall live in peaceWe shall live in peaceWe…

CJ Baker March 14, 2025

Protest Music Hall of Fame

Protest Music Hall of Fame: Strange Fruit – Billie Holiday

August 7, 1930 photograph of the lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, helped inspire Abel Meeropol to compose "Strange Fruit". Photo Credit: Lawrence Beitler "Southern trees bear strange fruitBlood on the leaves…

CJ Baker March 14, 2025