The other problem I have with the movie is although it refers to itself as being about music and the civil rights movement, in actual fact it's about music and the history of African Americans' struggle for equality. If you're going to use a title as inclusive as civil rights, you have to include all those groups who are striving for acceptance: Hispanics, gays and lesbians, Native Americans, women, illegal immigrants, and the disabled. While it's true that in the 1950s and 1960s the focus of civil rights activists was on the African American community, the latter part of the twentieth century saw other groups struggling for acceptance as well. While it's good that the movie includes events that happened beyond the borders of North America by talking about South Africa and Nelson Mandela, if they're calling this a movie about the civil rights movement, they should have been more inclusive.
While the movie Let Freedom Sing: How Music Inspired The Civil Rights Movement does a good job showing the connection between the fight for equal rights for African Americans and the popular music of the community, it's an incomplete and slightly misleading history as it leaves out references to key figures and events. Even if we accept its title at face value, that the civil rights movement was only concerned with African Americans, it still does an inadequate job of telling that history.
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