Curtis Mayfield wrote the song “People Get Ready” in 1965 as civil and racial unrest was increasing in the United States. He used imagery of Christ’s return to express the urgency of the people seeking to be heard. Mayfield drew from his experience in the church of his grandmother. “‘People Get Ready’ was released during a time of civil unrest in America, when the country was in turmoil over race relations and the Vietnam War just as Mayfield was beginning to infuse his work with social comme...
People Get Ready
