He says "We Shall Overcome" sustained him throughout the years of struggle — especially those moments when demonstrators who had been beaten, arrested or detained would stand and sing it together.

While the recent translation of “We Shall Overcome” is a moving addition to the Yiddish protest cannon, it is not the only Yiddish song associated with the American Civil Rights movement.

Editor’s note: This essay won first prize in the annual Fairfield University Martin Luther King Jr. essay contest open to Bridgeport middle-school students. We shall overcome is a promise ...

We Shall Overcome! by AFRO Staff August 16, 2018 January 25, 2022. ... Advanced planning for the massive demonstration stressed the importance of the marchers being orderly, ...

Fortunately for history, the force of Johnson’s “We Shall Overcome” speech (as it came to be known) was not undermined by his own moral contradictions, as they were emerging.

The Library of Congress calls it “the most powerful song of the 20th century.” So it was a surprise to learn that not only is the identity of the person who made it into that anthem known, but ...

“We shall overcome” was the anthem for the Civil Rights Movement, sung at almost every demonstration. It was a rallying cry for equal rights, including the right to vote. Rev. Sharpton ...

A veteran of 40 years of demonstrations, ... "We Shall Overcome". Throughout the remainder of the 1960s and the 1970s she continued to campaign on various issues and was arrested several times.

Folk singer Guy Carawan didn’t write “We Shall Overcome,” the galvanizing anthem of the civil-rights movement that the Library of Congress called “the most powerful song of the 20th ...

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Folk singer Guy Carawan didn’t write “We Shall Overcome,” the galvanizing anthem of the civil rights movement that the Library of Congress called “the most powerful song of the 20th ...

President Obama leads a group walking hand-in-hand, with many singing "We Shall Overcome," as they cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7, 2015, commemorating Bloody Sunday.