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Joan Baez performs "We Shall Overcome" at the White House in front of President Barack Obama, at a celebration of music from the period of the civil rights movement. Problems playing this file? See media help. " We Shall Overcome " is a gospel song that is associated heavily with the U.S. civil rights movement.
We Shall Overcome is a 1963 album by Pete Seeger. It was recorded live at his concert at Carnegie Hall, New York City, on June 8, 1963, and was released by Columbia Records.
We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions is the fourteenth studio album by Bruce Springsteen. [1] Released in 2006, it peaked at number three on the Billboard 200 and won the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album at the 49th Grammy Awards.
In his 2012 book We Shall Overcome: Sacred Song on the Devil's Tongue, music producer Isaias Gamboa presented a theory suggesting that Shropshire's hymn "If My Jesus Wills" was the basis for the iconic protest song "We Shall Overcome", contrasting a more popular theory that linked the song to a hymn by Rev. Dr. Charles Albert Tindley, "I'll ...
On June 25, 2009, Baez created a special version of "We Shall Overcome" [ 103 ] with a few lines of Persian lyrics in support of peaceful protests by Iranian people.
In his sleeve notes for The Bootleg Series Volumes 1–3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961–1991, John Bauldie wrote that Pete Seeger first identified the melody of "Blowin' in the Wind" as an adaptation of the old African-American spiritual "No More Auction Block/We Shall Overcome".
"If You Miss Me at The Back of the Bus" was a song written by Charles Neblett and recorded by Pete Seeger on his album We Shall Overcome in 1963. [1] The song was written in response to attempts to desegregate a public swimming pool in Cairo, Illinois , after a young African-American man drowned while swimming in a local river due to the pool ...
The book discusses the history of the iconic freedom-song, "We Shall Overcome" and the biography of Louise Shropshire (1913-1993), who Gamboa asserts to be the "original author" of the song which became the anthem of the Civil Rights Movement. Louise Shropshire was a noted hymn-writer and close friend of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth and Rev. Thomas A. Dorsey .