The March on Washington Film Festival hold ceremony honoring Civil Rights Movement music

March on Washington Film Festival Celebrates "Songs of the Civil Rights Movement"

WASHINGTON, JULY 13, 2016 – The fourth annual March on Washington Film Festival opens tonight with “Songs of the Civil Rights Movement” at Metropolitan AME Church. Founded in 1962 in Albany, Georgia, the Freedom Singers worked to educate communities about the fight for civil rights through song. The Singers’ concerts in schools, churches and jails became…