Black Music: An American (R)evolutionBlack Music: An American (R)evolution Ep1 - We Shall Overcome

We Shall Overcome - The story of African American music and the civil rights movement from slavery to Barack Obama's nomination as presidential candidate. The first part looks at black music from the early Negro spirituals sung by slaves in the South, to blues, jazz, bee-bop, soul, rhythm & blues and the freedom songs of the civil rights movement up to the historic march on Washington in the summer of 1963. (From France, in French and English) (Masterpiece) (Documentary Series) (Part 1 of 2) (Rpt) PG

Black Music: An American (R)evolution was broadcast on SBS ONE at Saturday 17 September 2016, 10:30. This episode was initially placed on Sunday 8 December 2013.