
Day 2: Racism In the Music Industry
YWCA Racial Justice Challenge
SEGREGATED CONCERTS


Watch R&B legend Ruth Brown discuss discrimination in early rock & roll tours and the power this music had to desegregate and unite audiences.
Interview with Ruth Brown
PUBLIC ENEMY SPEAKS OUT
Chuck D. and Jahi of Public Enemy on "Fight The Power"

![“Fight the Power” by Public Enemy, 1990. Collection of Public Enemy. “‘[Our] freedom of speech is freedom of death,’” Chuck D said of PE’s political anthem “Fight the Power.” “That line is like Bob Marley or Frederick Douglass: ‘There’s no progress without struggle.”](https://www.rockhall.com/sites/default/files/styles/images_autox800/public/2020-09/1800x1200%20-%20Fight%20The%20Power.png?itok=5u9ngC4H)
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"It's Been Said All Along: Voices of Rage, Hope, & Empowerment
Explore more resources on the topic of racial and social justice in music inside our virtual exhibit, Rock Hall EDU collection, and Library & Archives.