Folk Songs About Prejudice

[from Anne Saunders]
Society's Child & At Seventeen by Janis Ian
Ebony and Ivory, Michael Jackson and Paul McCartney
Death of Emmet Till, With God on Our Side, Lonesome Death of Hattie 
Carroll, prob others am forgetting by Bob Dylan
Strange Fruit by Billie Holliday
You've Got to Be Taught from the play "South Pacific" was already mentioned
Mississippi Goddam by Nina Simone
Hey Nelly Nelly by Judy Collins
Ku Klux Klan by Steel Pulse
Black Liberation Struggle by Gregory Isaacs
A Change Is Gonna Come, Sam Cooke
Ashes In The Fall, Rage Against The Machine
Short People, Randy Newman
Southern Man, Neil Young
Don't Call Me Ni** Whitey by Sly and the Family Stone
Redemption Song by Bob Marley & other versions like Johnny Cash
How about John Lennon's Imagine? 

Additional song suggestions? Email Richard Gillmann


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