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With a civil rights movement happening alongside war on multiple fronts, Dylan’s ability to wrestle an entire nation’s predispositions and outdated notions stands as a testament to the...
Dylan performed the song at a civil rights march in August 1963, when a quarter of a million people came out to protest for freedom and equality - it was the same event that Dr Martin Luther...
Bob Dylan's "The Times They Are a-Changin'" came out in 1963 as the country was entering a tumultuous time. Both the civil rights and antiwar movements embraced it as an anthem of protest.
The song has become a timeless protest anthem. While the song resonated in the ’60s as the world was changing—Civil Rights, JFK’s death, the looming Vietnam War—it continues to resonate.
Dylan and Baez reunited just three years later for the Rolling Thunder Revue and both appeared at the White House in 2010 to honor the music of the Civil Rights movement where he delivered a...
Originally written in 1962, Bob Dylan's civil rights anthem still hits hard 50 years later. NPR's Brian Naylor tells the story of the song's origins.
When Sean Wilentz watched Bob Dylan perform in Minneapolis on the night of Barack Obama’s election in 2008, he noted how “the stubbornly reticent Dylan broke with habit” and spoke directly to his audience, telling them that, although he had “lived in a world of darkness,” the election of America’s first black president made it look ...