Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick & Jimmy Collier
Fires of Napalm
1968 · Broadside BR 308 · USA
- Artist
- Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick & Jimmy Collier
- Title
- Fires of Napalm
- Release
- Everybody's Got a Right to Live
- Year
- 1968
- Label
- Broadside # BR 308
- Format
- LP · Album
- Language
- English
- Country
- USA
- Genre
- Folk · Contemporary Folk
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation
"Everybody's Got a Right to Live" (Broadside Records # BR 308), a contemporary folk album collaboration between .... Kirkpatrick had an interesting political career in edition to his musical work. Born in Haynesville, Louisiana in 1933, he established in 1964 the CORE Group - Congress of Racial Equality - in Jonesboro, Louisiana, a key civil rights movement in the United States. (1) Following threats of violence from locals and the Ku Klux Klan, he helped in the organisation of the Deacons for Defense and Justice, another civil rights group that called for self-defence methods to oppose racial abuse. He later joined Martin Luther King Jr.'s Southern Leadership Christian Conference. (2) Musically, he also collaborated with Pete Seeger - Ballads of Black America. Both Kirkpatrick and Collier appeared on the compilation The Best of Broadside 1962-1988 released by Smithsonian Folkways Recordings in 2000. Firstly, the album contained the song track "Hands Off Nkrumah" - a reference to Kwame Nkrumah, the first president and prime minister of Ghana following independence from British rule. The song warned the CIA and FBI from getting involved in Ghanian politics, making a comparison to…
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
About the artist
Duo of civil-rights movement song leaders: Rev. Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick (1933-1987), Louisiana-born folk singer and SCLC activist, and Jimmy Collier (b. 1947, Fort Smith, Arkansas), field organizer and singer for Dr. King's movement; they recorded together on 'Everybody's Got a Right to Live' (1968). [Source: Wikipedia]