“He sat and told me that what you'd be doing – singing and taking a message throughout the North and the South – will be just as important as you working down here,’’ Neblett, now 80, recalled.
The Freedom Singers traveled the country in the early 1960s logging more than 50,000 miles and performing in 46 states in nine months. They sang in churches, YMCAs and concert halls. They took the stage at the 1963 March on Washington where they sang"We shall not be moved'' and more recently at the White House in 2010 where they performed, ''Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around.
Freedom songs were inspired by gospel, Negro spirituals, R&B and blues, said Harris. The group would sometimes change lyrics of songs to fit the moment or demonstration. "It told what our commitment was,'' he said."Before you bow down in this mess you'd die. I believed in that."“Without the songs, I personally believe there wouldn't have been a movement because the songs kept people from being afraid,’’ she said.
Freedom Singers not so welcomed in neo fascist Italy
In Donetsk, the buildings of school No. 105 in Petrovsky district and school No. 56 in Kiev district suffered from the shelling of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.