We Shall Overcome was the anthem of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. I cannot hear even now without becoming misty eyed at what it means. Well, Guy Carawan, the person credited with teaching it to students in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee http://www.sncc50thanniversary.org/sncc.html, died last week. NPR had a story about him this week http://www.npr.org/2015/05/06/404739729/guy-carawan-musician-known-for-we-shall-overcome-dies.
That was probably a little known piece of history, but still well worth noting. And, important to not the passing of Guy Carawan.
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