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	The We Shall Overcome speech by Lyndon B Johnson
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	We Shall Overcome - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		We Shall Overcome is a protest song that became a key anthem of the US civil rights movement.
		Zilphia Horton, a white woman and the wife of the co-founder of the Highlander Folk School (later Highlander Research and Education Center) learned it from her.
		On March 16, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson used the phrase "We shall overcome" in a speech before Congress [1].
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/We_Shall_Overcome (641 words)

	We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions: brucespringsteen.net: Bruce Springsteen
		We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions: brucespringsteen.net: Bruce Springsteen
		Hot on the heels of the commercial and critical success of Bruce Springsteen's twenty-first album, Columbia Records is proud to release We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions - American Land Edition.
		The enhanced version of the album is available to offer an even closer view into the extraordinary circumstances and true organic spirit behind the recording of the album, featuring five additional songs, an expanded documentary, exclusive live footage, and previously unseen photos.
	www.brucespringsteen.net /albums/weshallovercome.html (183 words)

	MediaRights: (Site not responding. Last check: )
		We Shall Overcome became the anthem that set America marching towards racial equality.
		Narrated by Harry Belafonte We Shall Overcome begins in an isolated wood frame church deep in the Sea Islands of South Carolina where spirituals like "I Will Overcome" helped fls endure the long and brutal years of slavery.
		The film concludes with an inspiring montage of peace, antinuclear and environmental activists around the world singing "We Shall Overcome." In one moving scene, Bishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa sings the song and adds.
	www.mediarights.org /film/we_shall_overcome (321 words)

	We Shall Overcome - Sound Clip - MSN Encarta
		“We Shall Overcome” is one of many songs written during the civil rights movement in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
		Many of these songs were sung by fl students and are loosely based on gospels and spirituals.
		"We Shall Overcome" (Z. Horton, G. Carawan, F. Hamilton, P. Seeger) (c)1960 Ludlow Music Inc. (Cat.# Folkways SF 5591) (p)1961 Smithsonian/Folkways Recordings.
	encarta.msn.com /media_461564489_761580647_-1_1/We_Shall_Overcome.html (124 words)

	We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions - Bruce Springsteen
		We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions is an unusual Bruce Springsteen album in a number of ways.
		Springsteen has made plenty of great records, but We Shall Overcome is unique in its sheer kinetic energy; he has never made a record that feels as alive as this.
		We Shall Overcome is many things, but a creaky relic is not one of them.
	music.aol.com /album/we-shall-overcome-the-seeger-sessions/1023542 (774 words)

	We Shall Overcome
		Those words are a promise to every citizen that he shall share in the dignity of man. This dignity cannot be found in a man's possessions; it cannot be found in his power, or in his position.
		It says that he shall share in freedom, he shall choose his leaders, educate his children, and provide for his family according to his ability and his merits as a human being.
		To apply any other test - to deny a man his hopes because of his color or race, his religion or the place of his birth - is not only to do injustice, it is to deny America and to dishonor the dead who gave their lives for American freedom.
	www.classbrain.com /artteenst/publish/printer_we_shall_overcome.shtml (3385 words)

	We Shall Overcome - Lyrical Legacy (Library of Congress)
		Word for word, the short, simple lyrics of "We Shall Overcome" might be some of the most influential words in the English language.
		"We Shall Overcome" has it roots in African American hymns from the early 20th century, and was first used as a protest song in 1945, when striking tobacco workers in Charleston, S.C., sang it on their picket line.
		Its verses were sung on protest marches and in sit-ins, through clouds of tear gas and under rows of police batons, and it brought courage and comfort to bruised, frightened activists as they waited in jail cells, wondering if they would survive the night.
	www.loc.gov /teachers/lyrical/songs/overcome.html (355 words)

	The Orchard - Appleseed News & Reviews
		From its roots as an African-American spiritual to its recent use as a musical salve for a stunned and grieving America, the song “We Shall Overcome” is a timeless statement of conviction and faith.
		In subsequent days, Springsteen’s “We Shall Overcome” was played during a Mets-Braves game at Shea Stadium, the first sports event in New York City held after the attacks, and was played between innings at baseball games at Yankee Stadium.
		The events of September 11 were, sadly, not the first tragedy to inspire use of Springsteen’s “We Shall Overcome.” The recording was also used in the healing process by those who lost family and friends in the April 1999 shootings at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado.
	www.appleseedrec.com /theorchard/spring05/springsteen.html (656 words)

	Lyndon B. Johnson Speech - We Shall Overcome
		Those words are promised to every citizen that he shall share in the dignity of man. This dignity cannot be found in a man's possessions.
		He shall choose his leaders, educate his children, provide for his family according to his ability and his merits as a human being.
		To apply any other test, to deny a man his hopes because of his color or race or his religion or the place of his birth is not only to do injustice, it is to deny Americans and to dishonor the dead who gave their lives for American freedom.
	www.historyplace.com /speeches/johnson.htm (3731 words)

	American Rhetoric: Lyndon Baines Johnson -- "We Shall Overcome"
		Those words are a promise to every citizen that he shall share in the dignity of man. This dignity cannot be found in a man's possessions; it cannot be found in his power, or in his position.
		To apply any other test -- to deny a man his hopes because of his color, or race, or his religion, or the place of his birth is not only to do injustice, it is to deny America and to dishonor the dead who gave their lives for American freedom.
		The Constitution says that no person shall be kept from voting because of his race or his color.
	www.americanrhetoric.com /speeches/lbjweshallovercome.htm (3469 words)

	We Shall Overcome
		By the time Peter performed in Albany, 'We Shall Overcome' had evolved from a song to a ritual, where the audience stood and swayed, crossing hands.
		Soon 'We Shall Overcome' ceased to be heard in public, and Pete's recording disappeared under the counter.
		Only in these unique circumstances could a song like 'We Shall Overcome' become universal, applicable to all those suffering, as likely to be heard on the airwaves and in entertainment halls far removed from any particular social upheaval as at a civil rights meeting in Belfast or a Dublin housing march.
	mysongbook.de /msb/songs/w/weshallo.html (1921 words)

	Diane M. Weller: We Shall Overcome
		The lessons have moved forward with us; whether painful or filled with joy, love, goodness, fulfilling or disappointing; Each one, merely a battle overcome; moving us all ahead to become heroes, having faced the evils, the challenges, trials, tribulations; this thing called "Life".
		We shall over come; we have, we do, we are, we were, we shall, always.
		We are strong enough to face each new challenge; because of those battles of the past and what we learned from them.
	iwvpa.net /wellerdm/we_shall.php (734 words)

	NYS Museum Press Release - We Shall Overcome (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Those moments are captured in "We Shall Overcome: Photographs from America's Civil Rights Era" on view at the New York State Museum's Photography Gallery from Jan. 15 to Feb 28.
		"We Shall Overcome" was developed by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, and curated by Robert Phelan of Salem, N.Y., an art historian, museum curator, attorney and former director of CREED Photos (a database for civil rights).
		The striking photographs in the exhibition are juxtaposed with the words of Martin Luther King Jr., James Baldwin, Fannie Lou Harner and Malcolm X. "We Shall Overcome" ends with a selection of photographs of King taken by each of the photographers.
	www.nysm.nysed.gov /press/archive/preovercome.html (422 words)

	We Shall Overcome
		We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions honors socialist folk singer Pete Seeger, collecting a small part of the music Seeger helped to spread during his decades of making music and political activism.
		Some of these songs--like “We Shall Overcome” and “Eyes on the Prize”--are inseparable in anyone’s mind from the great struggles for justice and social change in U.S. history.
		Look at “We Shall Overcome,” which is the most famous so-called protest song of them all.
	www.socialistworker.org /2006-1/589/589_11_DaveMarsh.shtml (3417 words)

	BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » Who shall overcome?
		Uh, maybe they’re trying to overcome the pollyanna view that Iraq is not on the fast track to civil war….
		It’s not about “overcoming,” “persuading,” or even “making a statement.” It’s about gathering in large groups of like-minded people to bask in the warmth of collective self-righteousness and percieved moral superiority.
		Getting annoyed at the protesters singing, “We shall overcome” is pathetic, the response of the weak, pulling the yellow ribbon down over their eyes.
	www.buzzmachine.com /index.php/2005/09/24/who-shall-overcome (3026 words)

	Songs of the Seeger Sessions - We Shall Overcome - Notes
		"We Shall Overcome" is the only song on "The Seeger Sessions" carrying a songwriter's credit for Pete Seeger, though his claim was largely a defensive measure.
		Seeger's songwriting for "We Shall Overcome" likely consisted of changing the word "will" to "shall," though Seeger has said, in some interviews, that he doesn't recall making that change.
		In more recent years, "We Shall Overcome" has been recorded as gospel, for children's records, and also on Americana albums in the wake of 9/11.
	bruce.orel.ws /seegersessions/songs/we_shall_overcome_notes.html (362 words)

	We Shall Overcome!
		We shall only experience their full impact when the revolution has triumphed over apartheid.
		On the basis of those lessons we shall be in a better position to formulate and devise our tactics towards ‘independent’ Bantustans.
		In their service we shall face and conquer those who live on the backs of our people.
	www.anc.org.za /ancdocs/history/people/sisulu/overcome.html (10035 words)

	We Shall Overcome - The Fund
		"We Shall Overcome" served as the theme song of the Civil Rights Movement and is now a worldwide anthem for freedom and justice.
		Created to nurture grassroots efforts within African American communities to use art and activism against injustice, the We Shall Overcome Fund supports organizing in the South that is at the nexus of culture and social change.
		We Shall Overcome Fund support has been vital to the success of cultural and social programs in rural and urban communities throughout the South.
	www.highlandercenter.org /wsoc-fund.asp (371 words)

	We Shall Overcome!
		The Apostle John explained: "But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death" (Revelation 21:8).
		King said: "I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and every mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plains and the crooked places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together."
		Overcoming the temptations of Satan, self and society, a wonderful reward awaits them: "He who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will be his God and he shall be My son" (Revelation 21:7).
	www.tomorrowsworld.org /cgi-bin/tw/tw-mag.cgi?category=Magazine34&item=1104274818 (658 words)

	Music of Social Change :: Highlander and "We Shall Overcome"
		"We Shall Overcome" became the preeminent anthem of the civil rights movement during the early 1960s.
		Adapted from the African American spiritual "I’ll Overcome Someday" (as well as its immediate predecessor "We Will Overcome") by Pete Seeger, Zilphia Horton, and participants at the Highlander Folk School, the singing of "We Shall Overcome" became an essential component of the mass meetings, marches, and demonstrations of the Civil Rights Era.
		A familiar ritual soon developed around the song in which participants at such events would cross their arms in front of themselves, join hands with the people next to them, and sway to the rhythm of the music.
	www.metascholar.org /MOSC/essays/overcome.htm (273 words)

	We Shall Overcome
		It is the hope that sin and evil will be overcome in the here and now, because in reality this struggle has been won through Jesus' life, death and Resurrection.
		Every time you take communion, you are taking on the reality that God gives us his power to be released from all sin and all oppression to be able to play our part in God's great commission of liberation to the world.
		Its storyline spells out the great Exodus tradition of the children of Israel, "We shall overcome, we shall overcome, we shall overcome some day." It in turn became an anthem of the labour movements and then a protest song for peace in the 1960s.
	jmm.aaa.net.au /articles/2787.htm (1045 words)

	We shall overcome... some day...
		And in case you wonder, when was the above portrait of Merlene, that you too can't stop starring at, taken - here is the answer: in March 2003 for her interview when she was nearly 43 years old.
		It was a noble experiment in bi-racial harmony, and, had it succeeded, there probably would have been no need for a "second" civil rights movement.
		Exhausted by the efforts and divisions of the Civil War and Reconstruction and the longing for the country to reunite, the white advocates of equality were overcome by the forces of reaction, and the fate of African Americans was turned over to the individual states.
	sport.si21.com /atletika/ottey/english/_overcome_eng.htm (1371 words)

	We Shall Overcome (Site not responding. Last check: )
		We shall overcome, we shall overcome, We shall overcome someday.
		Oh, deep in my heart, I do believe, We shall overcome someday.
		We shall all be free, we shall all be free, We shall all be free someday.
	www.buffalostate.edu /orgs/rspms/overcome.html (216 words)

	Bruce Springsteen: We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions - PopMatters Music Review (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ostensibly, it’s because, one: We Shall Overcome is the second consecutive record where Springsteen has left the E Streeters at home; two: It’s his first all-covers album ever and; three: Apparently, largely, because he sings with a twang on it.
		An idea hatched when Bruce contributed the song “We Shall Overcome” to a 1998 Pete Seeger tribute record, The Seeger Sessions was conceived as a new-millennium retelling of songs popularized by the folk icon, but it’s an album that’s about a thousand times more fun than that might suggest.
		Smarty-pants writers and cable TV hosts may shuffle through We Shall Overcome looking for political over-or-undertones, but they’ll likely be disappointed.
	www.popmatters.com /pm/music/reviews/bruce_springsteen_we_shall_overcome_the_seeger_sessions (805 words)

	Bruce Springsteen lyrics - WE SHALL OVERCOME
		Originally, lyrics for the song are derived from an old slavery song that field workers used to sing to give them a moral support for carrying on, but it was then sang as "I'll be alright".
		The year that World War II ended, fl women went on strike protesting against plant owners that controlled everything and the song was changed once more to "We will win our rights" (which was more related to the spirit of their movement then).
		The song is called We Shall Overcome, and characteristically, he and the three others who helped shape it have assigned their considerable royalties from its performances to the civil-rights movement."
	www.springsteenlyrics.com /lyrics/w/weshallovercome.php (1670 words)

	Get Up, Stand Up . Revolutionary Music . We Shall Overcome \| PBS
		"We Shall Overcome," as it's sung today, is derived from a hymn, "I'll Overcome Some Day," by Charles Albert Tindley, born around 1851 to slave parents in Maryland.
		A minister who for years preached at the Bainbridge Street Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia (it was subsequently renamed Tindley Temple in his honor), he noted the lack of hymns by members of his denomination and did something about it.
		More than many of his other songs, it lends itself to mass singing: it's slow-paced, it has a narrow range so no part is too high or too low for people with ordinary voices, and the verse, "If in my heart, I do not yield," gives the congregation a chance to really boom it out.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/getupstandup/music_overcome1.html (447 words)

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