“We Shall Overcome”
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After singing the gospel protest song “We Shall Overcome” and the national anthem, activists broke into spontaneous chants of “USA, USA, USA.”
From Washington Times ● Jun. 24, 2023
When Knutson and Cahana and volunteers delivered boxes containing more than 160,000 voter signatures to election officials in Salem in July, they sang “We Shall Overcome” and other liberation songs.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 26, 2022
Pete Seeger’s legendary “We Shall Overcome” concert at Carnegie Hall in 1963, the event that signaled the indispensable way music could inspire ’60s-era political reform, ended on an exceptionally high point.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2022
At the 30th anniversary of Selma, he sang “We Shall Overcome” with Black Alabamians.
From New York Times ● Jul. 30, 2020
On the other side, the words of “We Shall Overcome” could be heard as family, hundreds of onlookers and several troopers greeted Lewis.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 26, 2020
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