Common elements like memorability, teachability and timelessness can lead to songs moving from the stage to the streets.

As the civil rights movement gained momentum in the 1960s, folk music gave voice to a new generation longing for equality and justice. "We Shall Overcome" is particularly well-known as a civil rights ...

Bob Dylan’s protest song “Blowin’ in the Wind,” also ... at NCCU and adding the lyrics to the city’s downtown civil rights mural. Mayor Pro Tem Mark-Anthony Middleton said city leaders ...