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    Denis (constantorbit@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Sep-2024 00:37:39 JSTDenisDenis

    TIL "We Shall Overcome" has its origin as a labor union song before it became more associated with the American civil rights movement.

    "In '45 in Charleston SC members of FTA-CIO union, mostly female & African American, began 5-mo strike against American Tobacco Co. To keep up spirits during cold wet winter, Lucille Simmons led a version of gospel hymn, "We'll Overcome (I'll Be All Right)" to end each day's picketing"

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Shall_Overcome#Role_of_the_Highlander_Folk_School
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpA7prIm4dY

    #til #labor #union #music

    In conversationabout 3 months ago from hachyderm.iopermalink

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      We Shall Overcome
      "We Shall Overcome" is a gospel song that is associated heavily with the U.S. civil rights movement. The origins of the song are unclear; it was thought to have descended from "I'll Overcome Some Day," a hymn by Charles Albert Tindley, while the modern version of the song was first said to have been sung by tobacco workers led by Lucille Simmons during the 1945–1946 Charleston Cigar Factory strike in Charleston, South Carolina. In 1947, the song was published under the title "We Will Overcome" in an edition of the People's Songs Bulletin, as a contribution of and with an introduction by Zilphia Horton, then-music director of the Highlander Folk School of Monteagle, Tennessee—an adult education school that trained union organizers. She taught it to many others, including People's Songs director Pete Seeger, who included it in his repertoire, as did many other activist singers, such as Frank Hamilton and Joe Glazer. In 1959, the song began to be associated with the civil rights movement as a protest song, when Guy Carawan stepped in with his and Seeger's version as song leader at Highlander, which was then focused on nonviolent civil rights activism...
    2. We Shall Not Be Moved / Roll the Union On
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      Provided to YouTube by Smithsonian Folkways RecordingsWe Shall Not Be Moved / Roll the Union On · Joe GlazerClassic Labor Songs from Smithsonian Folkways℗ 20...
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