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Lesson Plans
ALBUM American Essays: Read by Houston Peterson

Houston Peterson
Soundscapes Say It Loud: African American Spoken Word
ALBUM Black American History in Ballad, Song &...

Various Artists
LESSON PLAN Singing for Justice - Lesson Plan |...
ALBUM But the Women Rose, Vol.1: Voices of Women in...

Various Artists
LESSON PLAN Singing for Justice: Following the Musical...
ALBUM The Glory of Negro History

Langston Hughes
ALBUM But the Women Rose, Vol.2: Voices of Women in...

Various Artists
ALBUM Every Tone a Testimony

Various Artists
ALBUM Field to Factory - Voices of the Great...

Spencer Crew
ALBUM Music of American Politics

Joe Glazer
ALBUM What if I am a Woman?, Vol. 1: Black Women's...

Ruby Dee
Archive Spotlight When It Rains, It Pours | Smithsonian...
ALBUM Who Built America: American History Through...

Bill Bonyun
LESSON PLAN Shape Note Singing Lesson
ALBUM American History in Ballad and Song, Vol.1

Various Artists
ALBUM Winners and Losers: Campaign Songs from the...

Peter Janovsky
ALBUM American History in Ballad and Song, Vol.2

Various Artists
ALBUM The Nashville Sit-in Story: Songs and Scenes...

Various Artists
Artist Spotlight Bernice Johnson Reagon: Civil Rights song...
Artist Spotlight Woodrow Wilson “Woody” Guthrie
ALBUM Socialism and the American Negro

W.E.B. DuBois
ALBUM We Shall Overcome: Songs of the Freedom...

Various Artists