African origins : "I got my religion from out of the sun"
The transatlantic journey : "I don't care where you bury my body"
African resistance to enslavement : "Dark clouds a'risin'"
The great enslavement : "De udder worl' is not like dis"
Remembering and organizing : "And before I'd be a slave"
The gathering of freedom fighters : "All my troubles will soon be over with"
The Civil War : "My Lord gwineter to rain down fire"
The promise of reconstruction : "Swing low, sweet chariot"
A new repression cometh : "Now ain't them hard trials"
In defiance of segregation : "And still we rise"
The era of demonstrative protest : "Great day, great day, the righteous marching"
The transforming of America : "Before this time another year"
Social and economic realities : "Didn't my Lord deliver Daniel"
