• "We Shall Overcome" (3:24) Joan Baez performs "We Shall Overcome" at the White House in front of President Barack Obama, at a celebration of music from...
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  • We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions is the fourteenth studio album by Bruce Springsteen. Released in 2006, it peaked at number three on the Billboard...
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  • Drømmen (Danish "The Dream", English: We Shall Overcome) is a 2006 Danish film based on a true story about a young boy's crusade against a dictatorial...
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    We Shall Overcome is an album by American politician Bernie Sanders, recorded and released in 1987. The album combined folk music and spoken word, narrated...
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    "Forever Young", "Here's to You", "Joe Hill", "Sweet Sir Galahad" and "We Shall Overcome". Baez performed fourteen songs at the 1969 Woodstock Festival and...
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  • "We Shall Overcome" is a protest song of the Civil Rights Movement. We Shall Overcome may also refer to: We Shall Overcome (Pete Seeger album), an album...
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    he who changed the lyric from the traditional "We will overcome" to the more singable "We shall overcome". Seeger was born on May 3, 1919, at the French...
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  • 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...
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    "Chimes of Freedom" (1988), which were chart hits, and the cover albums We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions (2006) and Only the Strong Survive (2022). Several...
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    experienced". Often called "the anthem of the Civil Rights Movement", "We Shall Overcome" was a hymn from the 19th-century that was used as a protest labor...
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    by folk singer Pete Seeger, who changed the refrain "I will overcome" to "We shall overcome". Other white folksingers, such as Guy Carawan, Joan Baez,...
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  • where the modern version of the gospel hymn and civil rights anthem "We Shall Overcome" was first performed. During the late 1800s, influential business...
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    We Shall Overcome: Sacred Song on the Devil's Tongue is a book by, Isaias Gamboa, a music producer, songwriter and arranger. The book discusses the history...
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    attacks. He released two more folk albums, Devils & Dust (2005) and We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions (2006), followed by two more albums with the...
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    but really it is all of us, who must overcome the crippling legacy of bigotry and injustice. And we shall overcome." Afterward, King sent a telegram to...
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    pass a Voting Rights Act. During this speech Johnson used the words "We Shall Overcome". On September 20, 2001, President George W. Bush gave a speech before...
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    in the "Happy Birthday" lawsuit filed similar lawsuits regarding "We Shall Overcome" and "This Land Is Your Land". One of the most famous performances...
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  • Close Your Eyes "We Shall Overcome", a protest song This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title We Will Overcome. If an internal...
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    good. And we thank him for our food. By his hands we all are fed. Thank you, Lord, for our daily bread. God is great and God is good, And we thank him...
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    He collaborated with 30 Vermont musicians to record a folk album, We Shall Overcome, in 1987. That same year, U.S. News & World Report ranked Sanders...
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    Alexander. We Shall Overcome: A History of Civil Rights and the Law. (Yale University Press, 2008). ISBN 978-0-300-11837-7 Tuck, Stephen. We Ain't What We Ought...
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  • "I Shall Not Be Moved", also known as "We Shall Not Be Moved", is an African-American slave spiritual, hymn, and protest song dating to the early 19th...
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  • and recorded a number of songs on November 2, 1997. These included "We Shall Overcome", which was released on the 1998 tribute album, Where Have All The...
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  • The tour was an outgrowth of the approach taken on Springsteen's We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions album, which featured folk music songs written...
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  • M.F." on August 6, 2021, "Good as Gold" on December 8, 2021 and "We Shall Overcome", a bonus track on the expanded edition of the album, on March 15...
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  • Sweet Sunny South" "Warm and Tender Love" "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" "We Shall Overcome" The day opened at 12:15 p.m. and featured some of the event's psychedelic...
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  • live the Republic and long live Burkina! The motherland or death, we shall overcome." In October 2021, the trial of the alleged perpetrators of Thomas...
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  • the movement's participants when words were not enough. The song "We Shall Overcome" quickly became the unofficial anthem of the movement. Guy Carawan...
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    expansive voting rights legislation. In his speech, he used the words "we shall overcome", adopting the rallying cry of the civil rights movement.: 278  The...
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    prominent role in his non-E Street, big band folk-oriented 2006 album We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions and the subsequent Sessions Band Tour. She contributed...
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