We Shall Overcome

58m
Documentary
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A documentary on the iconic song "We Shall Overcome" and its important legacy in the American Civil Rights movement, echoing all over the world as a recognizable song of struggle against social injustices. Singers and activists talk about its origins, used during a workers strike in the mid 1940's, and how the lyrics and its significance slightly changed in the next decades.

Cast

Harry Belafonte
Self - Narrator
Joan Baez
Self

Crew

Jim Brown
Director, Director of Photography
Kenneth Levis
Editor
Ginger Brown
Producer
Jim Brown
Producer
Harold Leventhal
Producer
George C. Stoney
Producer

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