Pop Culture Influences the Civil Rights Movement

      Mass Media such as music, literature, film, and even sports influenced the Civil Rights Movement. In sporting events, the blacks were discriminated against but had great achievements.

One of the most famous baseball players was Jackie Robinson, who broke the barrier of segregation in the Major Baseball League. There were many writers, such as Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Lorraine Hansberry, and many more whose writing intrigued blacks across the nation.

Rock was a rising genre after the cold war and the during the Civil Rights Movement.










Sources: http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/articles/pages/6066/Civil-Rights-Movement.html

http://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plan/freedom-rides-and-role-popular-music-civil-rights-movemen

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