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The songs we sang together created for us a fortress of courage.In church-shaking mass meetings and tiny gatherings in sharecropper shacks, on voter-registration lines and foot-sore dusty roads, on marches, freedom-rides, and sit-ins, in night-running cars with the Klan on our tail, and in dank jailhouse cells, the songs uplifted and sustained us.As one Freedom Riders once put it, "One song is worth two prayers." I'd heard those songs before.I'd heard them in the piney woods setting of the churches of my mother's heritage in Nelson County, Virginia. Yet, in this place, Southwest Georgia, with hostile police ringing the exterior of the church, they were neither repetitious nor familiar; they were worship that contained within the reality of its expression a power affirming life and defying death. The challenge was to use fear as a signal to exercise caution while refusing to allow fear to paralyze you.

By clicking on or navigating the site, you agree to allow us to collect information on and off Facebook through cookies.All of us joined that prayer and we sang: Ain't gonna let no sheriff Turn me 'round, Turn me 'round, Turn me 'round, I'm gonna keep on a-walking, Keep on a-talking, Marching up to Freedom Land. [4] Freedom songs suffused each singer with the summed power of the whole.They wove into a single Freedom Movement the adults who sang them in mass meetings, the young militants who carried them into jail, and the local activists who raised them in small circles of courage surrounded by danger.That power with which those songs and prayers were infused transcended the objective reality of our situation, fashioned fear into faith, cringing into courage, suffering into survival, despair into defiance, and pain into protest. It would be insanely dishonest to claim that we were unafraid. One night when a gang of local "lawmen" entered the mass meeting and stood behind us with their hands on their guns, we sang our freedom songs with defiant and prayerful fervor.More than once Charles Sherrod challenged the sheriff ...