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==External links== {{wikisource|We Shall Overcome (song)}} * {{National Public Radio|1031839}} * [[s:We Shall Overcome (song)|Lyrics]] * [http://www.culturalequity.org/alanlomax/ce_alanlomax_profile_carawan.php Authorized Profile of Guy Carawan with history of the song, "We Shall Overcome" from the Association of Cultural Equity] * [http://www.eastvillageradio.com/modules.php?name=evrsearch ''Freedom in the Air: Albany Georgia. 1961β62. SNCC #101''.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191012010027/http://www.eastvillageradio.com/modules.php%3Fname%3Devrsearch |date=2019-10-12 }} Recorded by Guy Carawan, produced for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee by Guy Carawan and Alan Lomax. "''Freedom In the Air'' ... is a record of the 1961 protest in Albany, Georgia, when, two weeks before Christmas, 737 people brought the town nearly to a halt to force its integration. The record's never been reissued and that's a shame, as it's a moving document of a community through its protest songs, church services, and experiences in the thick of the civil rights struggle."βNathan Salsburg, host, ''Root Hog or Die'', East Village Radio, January 2007. * [http://mysongbook.de/msb/songs/w/weshallo.html Susanne's Folksong-Notizen], excerpts from various articles, liner notes, etc. about "We Shall Overcome". <!-- This led to [Dunaway, 1990] and [Seeger, 1993] --> * [http://gersic.com/writing.php?id=18 Musical Transcription] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130922052545/http://gersic.com/writing.php?id=18 |date=2013-09-22 }} of "We Shall Overcome," based on a recording of Pete Seeger's version, sung with the SNCC Freedom Singers on the 1963 live Carnegie Hall recording, and the 1988 version by Pete Seeger sung at a reunion concert with Pete and the Freedom Singers on the anthology, ''Sing for Freedom'', recorded in the field 1960β88 and edited and annotated by Guy and Candie Carawan, released in 1990 as Smithsonian-Folkways CD SF 40032. * [https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5362968 NPR news article] including full streaming versions of Pete Seeger's classic 1963 live Carnegie Hall recording and Bruce Springsteen's tribute version. * [https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc19769/m1/ "Pete Seeger & the story of 'We Shall Overcome'"] from 1968 interview on ''[[The Pop Chronicles]]''. * [http://blogs.citypages.com/pscholtes/2006/06/something_about.asp "Something About That Song Haunts You"], essay on the history of "We Shall Overcome," ''Complicated Fun'', June 9, 2006. * [http://www.allbusiness.com/retail-trade/miscellaneous-retail-retail-stores-not/4609485-1.html "Howie Richmond Views Craft Of Song: Publishing Giant Celebrates 50 Years As TRO Founder", by Irv Lichtman, ''Billboard'', 8, 28, 1999]. Excerpt: "Key folk songs in the [TRO] catalog, as arranged by a number of folklorists, are 'We Shall Overcome,' 'Kisses Sweeter Than Wine' 'On Top Of Old Smokey,' 'So Long, It's Been Good To Know You,' 'Goodnight Irene,' 'If I Had A Hammer,' 'Tom Dooley,' and 'Rock Island Line.'" {{Civil rights movement}} {{Authority control}} [[Category:1900 songs]] [[Category:American folk songs]] [[Category:American patriotic songs]] [[Category:Gospel songs]] [[Category:Bluegrass songs]] [[Category:American Christian hymns]] [[Category:Songs about freedom]] [[Category:Songs of the civil rights movement]] [[Category:Pete Seeger songs]] [[Category:Joan Baez songs]] [[Category:Songs about racism and xenophobia]] [[Category:Roger Waters songs]] [[Category:Mahalia Jackson songs]] [[Category:Peter, Paul and Mary songs]] [[Category:Articles containing video clips]] [[Category:Songs involved in royalties controversies]] [[Category:Slogans]] [[Category:American political catchphrases]] [[Category:1900 quotations]] [[Category:Motivation]] [[Category:Quotations from music]] [[Category:Protest songs]]
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