African Americans: Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit

Kanye West 's version : blood on the trees http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVI6Q8jsgG0

Songs of protest inspired by the civil rights movement of the 60s
The Beatles: Black bird

John Coltrane : Alabama

Stevie Wonder : Happy Birthday

Ben harper : Like a king

Aretha franklin : Respect/lift every song and sing

Joss stone : We shall overcome/ eyes on the prize

The blind boys of Alabama : Free at last

Blus mitchel : March on selma

Bob marley : redemption song/ go tell it on the mountain

Common & will I am : a dream

Daddy : the ballad of Martin Luther King

Neil Young : Alabama

Stevie Wonder : living the city

U2 : Pride

Public Enemy, "Fight The Power"

Wyclef Jean : Here's to the state of Mississippi

Rage Against The Machine : "Wake Up

The staple singers : when will we be paid for the work we've down ?

Bob Dylan : Times they are a changin'