[CIVIL RIGHTS]. CORE Sit-In Songs. New York: Congress of Racial Equality, 1962.

8vo (140 x 215 mm). Original illustrated wrappers, including cover art showing four bars of music, with lunch counter stools in place of musical notes, and advertisement for the Sit-In Songs album at end. (Some light toning to margins, few ink stamps on cover, light creasing near top right corner of front cover and foreward.)

The pamphlet contains words to a collection of songs released on an album in the summer of 1962 by participants in CORE's Freedom Highways project. This project was designed to open chain restaurants along major federal highways to all persons. The compilation contains lyrics to gospel songs such as "We Shall Overcome" as well as songs written by activists who served jail time, including "Hold On" credited to Guytanna Horton and Joycelyn McKissick who served 30 day sentences for "trespassing" during CORE's Freedom Highway Project, and "Fight On" written by Barbara Braxton in April 1960 while serving 49 days in jail for sitting in at a Woolworth lunch counter.

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[CIVIL RIGHTS]. CORE Sit-In Songs. New York: Congress of Racial Equality, 1962.

African Americana

[CIVIL RIGHTS]. CORE Sit-In Songs. New York: Congress of Racial Equality, 1962.

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