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The Sit-In Story: The Story of the Lunch Room Sit-Ins
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(Folkways Records, 1961), 53 mins

"I had to decide that I was a Negro and an American, a Christian, a human being who wanted to be considered as a human being and who wanted to be thought of as a human being and who wanted to be thought of as a person who gave respect and demanded respect and in this way I saw the need for maturity." Thus spoke P...

(Folkways Records, 1961), 53 mins
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Socialism and the American Negro
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produced by Lee Baxandall, 1935-2008 (Folkways Records, 1960), 40 mins

"But especially American Negroes must know what is going on in the world today and learn for themselves what [Socialism] has to teach them in order that they may preserve their culture, get rid of their poverty, ignorance and disease and help America live up at least to a shadow of its vain boast as the land of th...

produced by Lee Baxandall, 1935-2008 (Folkways Records, 1960), 40 mins
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Songs of a New York Lumberjack
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produced by Kenneth S. Goldstein, 1927-1995 (Folkways Records, 1958), 49 mins
Folklorist Ellen Stekert collected the eighteen songs on this album from Ezra "Fuzzy" Barhight, a retired lumberjack in Cohocton, New York. Here, she sings a selection of songs that Fuzzy learned from his mother and from other lumbermen in northern Pennsylvania and southern New York.
produced by Kenneth S. Goldstein, 1927-1995 (Folkways Records, 1958), 49 mins
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Songs of Joe Hill
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(Folkways Records, 2012), 23 mins
Sung by labor educator Joe Glazer, this album features songs by union organizer Joe Hill. Although these songs are rooted in their time, their messages are still relevant today, and this collection is valuable to scholars and fans of labor music alike.
(Folkways Records, 2012), 23 mins
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Songs of the Civil War
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produced by Irwin Silber, 1925-2010 (Folkways Records, 1960), 1 hour 36 mins
produced by Irwin Silber, 1925-2010 (Folkways Records, 1960), 1 hour 36 mins
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performed by Pete Seeger, 1919-2014; in Songs of the Spanish Civil War, Vol. 1: Songs of the Lincoln Brigade, Six Songs for Democracy (Folkways Records, 1961), 3 mins
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