in New Yourknight clubs. Holiday sung for over twenty-five years in the United States and Europe. Holidayalso sung about the plight of African Americans. One of Holidays most well known songs forexample is Strange Fruit, which describes lynching in the American south.Sourthern trees bear strange fruitBlood on the leaves and blood at the rootBlack body swinging in Southern breezeStrange fruit hanging frome the popular trees.Billie Holiday also co-wrote and sung God Bless the Child, which speaks poverty in theAfrican American community.Rich relatives give crust of bread and suchYou can help yourself but dont take too muchMomma may have, popa may haveBut God bless the child that got his ownThats got his own.Holiday used her music to speak out against the societal issues facing African Americans.The 1960s sparked a movement for social change in the African American community. In the 1960s, conditions in the United States were still not good for African Americans. AfricanAmericans were still experiencing inferior positons compared to European Americans. AfricanAmericans acquired the worst housing, schooling, the lowest paying jobs, and segregation wasstill a major part of Sourthern life. The conditions of African Americans in the 1960s sparkedthe Civil Rights Movement. The Civil Rights Movement was where African Americansparticipated in bus boycotts, sit-ins, and long marches and other forms of portest in the pursuit ofequality.The revoluntionary female singer of the 1960s was Aretha Franklin. Franklin, known asthe queen of soul, was born in Memphis Tenesse in 1942. Franklin was the daughter of a worldfamous preach; the Reverend C.L. Franklin. In the 1960s, Franklin became one of the biggestinternational recording stars in music, selling 250,000 copies of her first record within the firsttwo weeks of its release. Franklin rose to fame singing sungs entitled Dr. Feelgood, Do RightWoman Do Right Man, I Never Loved a Man, Chain of Fool...
