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==Further reading== * ''Sing for Freedom: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement Through Its Songs'': Compiled and edited by Guy and Candie Carawan; foreword by Julian Bond (New South Books, 2007), comprising two classic collections of freedom songs: '' We Shall Overcome'' (1963) and ''Freedom Is A Constant Struggle'' (1968), reprinted in a single edition. The book includes a major new introduction by Guy and Candie Carawan, words and music to the songs, important documentary photographs, and firsthand accounts by participants in the civil rights movement. Available from [https://archive.today/20070619072824/http://www.highlandercenter.org/r-b-songbooks.asp Highlander Center]. * ''We Shall Overcome! Songs of the Southern Freedom Movement'': Julius Lester, editorial assistant. Ethel Raim, music editor: Additional musical transcriptions: Joseph Byrd [and] Guy Carawan. New York: Oak Publications, 1963. * ''Freedom is a Constant Struggle'', compiled and edited by Guy and Candie Carawan. Oak Publications, 1968. * [[Alexander Tsesis]], [http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300118377 ''We Shall Overcome: A History of Civil Rights and the Law'']. Yale University Press, 2008. * [https://web.archive.org/web/20160314093213/http://www.weshallovercomebook.com/overcome_book/Home.html ''We Shall Overcome: A Song that Changed the World''], by Stuart Stotts, illustrated by Terrance Cummings, foreword by Pete Seeger. New York: Clarion Books, 2010. * ''Sing for Freedom'', Folkways Records, produced by Guy and Candie Carawan, and the Highlander Center. Field recordings from 1960 to 1988, with the Freedom Singers, Birmingham Movement Choir, Georgia Sea Island Singers, Doc Reese, Phil Ochs, Pete Seeger, Len Chandler, and many others. Smithsonian-Folkways CD version 1990. * ''We Shall Overcome: The Complete Carnegie Hall Concert, June 8, 1963, Historic Live recording June 8, 1963''. 2-disc set, includes the full concert, starring Pete Seeger, with the Freedom Singers, Columbia # 45312, 1989. Re-released 1997 by Sony as a box CD set. * ''Voices Of The Civil Rights Movement: Black American Freedom Songs 1960β1966''. Box CD set, with the Freedom Singers, Fanny Lou Hammer, and Bernice Johnson Reagon. Smithsonian-Folkways CD ASIN: B000001DJT (1997). * Durman, C 2015, 'We Shall Overcome: Essays on a Great American Song edited by Victor V. Bobetsky', ''Music Reference Services Quarterly'', vol. 8, iss. 3, pp. 185β187 * Graham, D 2016, "Who Owns 'We Shall Overcome'?", ''The Atlantic'', 14 April, accessed 28 April 2017, [https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/04/we-shall-overcome-lawsuit/478068/ Who Owns 'We Shall Overcome'?] * Clark, B. & Borchert, S 2015, "Pete Seeger, Musical Revolutionary", ''Monthly Review'', vol. 66, no. 8, pp. 20β29
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