"Woke Up This Morning" is a freedom song created in 1961 from the old gospel song "I woke up this morning with my mind stayed on Jesus". It is one of many similar songs during the civil rights movement. The song was written by Reverend Robert Wesby of Aurora, Illinois, who sang it in the Hinds County, Mississippi, jail after his arrest and incarceration during the Freedom Rides.[1]
- ^ Seeger, Pete (1989). Everybody Says Freedom. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. pp. 175–177. ISBN 9780393306040.
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