Shelf by Giana Santoro

gianasantoro — 2024-01-30 19:03:32 UTC

was it a big hit?

gianasantoro — 2024-01-31 14:32:44 UTC

When the song came out, it peaked at number 49 on the US Billboard Hot 100.

How was it taken at the time?

gianasantoro — 2024-01-31 14:34:15 UTC

At that time, the song was taken as a hit and made a lot of people rethink what is happening in our world. They took it as we need to change and fix this issue.

Where?

gianasantoro — 2024-01-31 14:35:59 UTC

The song was written about for the movie Selma that talks about all the civil right movements

Who? (Selma marches)

gianasantoro — 2024-01-31 14:36:58 UTC

"Courageous Eight" Ulysses S. Blackmon, Amelia Boynton, Ernest Doyle, Marie Foster, James Gildersleeve, J.D. Hunter, Sr., Henry Shannon, Sr., and Frederick Douglas Reese.

Why?

gianasantoro — 2024-01-31 14:47:33 UTC

The song was written to invokes a call to end racial injustice.

Who (civil rights movements)

gianasantoro — 2024-01-31 14:51:45 UTC

Martin Luther King Jr. was a part of the civil rights movements and started his very own march. There were an estimated 250,000 people at his march.

Rosa Parks was another person who was big during the civil rights movement times. She refused a white man who tried to make her get up and get out of her bus chair and she said no. She was put into jail for a couple hours.

The 5 day Freedom March led by MLK jr.

gianasantoro — 2024-01-31 14:56:19 UTC

"They say, "Stay down", and we stand up"

"Shots, we on the ground, the camera panned up"

"King pointed to the mountain top and we ran up"

They listened to someone like them and who was also trying to make a difference, but when they were told to stand down they stood right back up to prove their point even more.

How they show/explain what their freedom is to them

gianasantoro — 2024-01-31 15:01:00 UTC

“The movement is a rhythm to us”

“Freedom is like religion to us”

"Justice is juxtapositionin' us"

This is how they explain it to others, the fact that it feels like religion to them shows that they should be allowed to feel that way because religion was allowed no matter what in some places at that time and if someone believed in something else other than that, they were not put in a separate place. They were allowed to be around them.

gianasantoro — 2024-02-01 18:18:58 UTC

This song was used to explain how the colored people saw how they were being treated at these times. They felt as if they were something different then whites and felt that they didn't belong in the same word as whites. Common uses examples like the Selma march and MLK jr. march. He also uses Jesus as an example trying to make the connection on how he got his own crown in front of a big crowd. He talks about how when shots were shot, they dropped to the ground out of fear.