Bob Dylan Performs in Greenwood, Mississippi - July 6th, 1963 (Audio)

I found this audio on the website for The Smithsonian, where you can hear more performances/speeches from the event. Other notable figures in attendance include The Freedom Singers, Theodore Bikel, John Lewis and Pete Seeger. I spliced together the parts with Dylan. To listen to the complete audio, visit: https://sova.si.edu/details/NMAH.AC.0...

Introduction: 0:00
Dylan speaking 0:54
Only a Pawn in Their Game 1:33 (first start)
Only a Pawn in Their Game 2:23 (second start. It gets cut short before the six minute mark)
Blowin’ in the Wind 5:56
We Shall Overcome 10:12 (with full group)

A brief background of this event:
SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) had for a year been organizing in difficult circumstances in and around Greenwood. Police had responded to their peaceful protests with arrests and dog attacks. One leading civil-rights activist, Medgar Evers, had been murdered in June 1963; the killer, Byron de La Beckwith, a white supremacist and Ku Klux Klan member who lived in Greenwood, would not be convicted until 1994 because in 1964 two juries declined to find him guilty.

SNCC activists pressed on, and called a July 1963 rally and concert. Performers who agreed to appear included Bob Dylan along with two figures in the “protest song” movement, Seeger and Theodore Bikel, who in 1959 had started the Newport Folk Festival in the northeast state of Rhode Island, five years after the city’s annual jazz festival had begun. (Emshwiller captured footage of Bob Dylan singing “Only a Pawn in Their Game,” which is about the assassination of Medgar Evers, at a rally in support of the voter-registration campaign, but it did not appear in The Streets of Greenwood; D.A. Pennebaker used it in his 1967 Dylan documentary, Dont Look Back; Pennebaker traded Willis for it: in return for the use of Pennebaker’s editing room, Willis gave Pennebaker the footage of Dylan singing in Greenwood, and Pennebaker slotted it straight into his portrait of the singer, using exactly what Willis and his colleagues had shot, with no edits.)
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The footage described above can be viewed here: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3a...

The original NY Times article about the event:
http://www.bobdylanroots.com/northern...