It is one of the most inspiring, powerful and emotional stories in American history. Within a generation, Americans of African descent overturned several hundred years of slavery and brutally enforced segregation to win their Civil Rights. And throughout the movement, music played a role unlike any other. It did not simply generate memorable songs reflecting the time and the events, it helped lead from the frontlines.

The songs of the Civil Rights movement are the subject of 'Let Freedom Sing: The Music of the Civil Rights Movement,' a stunning new 3-CD set from that will be released during Black History Month 2009.

An accompanying documentary film co-produced by Time Life for PBS and TV-One will be broadcast in conjunction with the set's release in February, retelling the story both in music and dramatic first-person accounts. The documentary will them become available on DVD on March 3rd.

If you would like to win your own copy of this new fantastic new CD box-set, just answer this easy question: The turbulence of the year of Malcolm X's assassination, provides a particularly keen microcosm of the conflicts here in this musical entity; but what was the exact date of his assassination?!

Send me your answers and if you're correct you'll be in the running to win one of these wonderful new CDs. Just send us an e:mail here before March 1st with your answer and the subject title CONTEST: LET FREEDOM SING BOX SET to:

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