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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.Read moreLess
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.
The story
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 & crew
Harry BelafonteSelf - Narrator
Joan BaezSelfExplore the crew
- Director
- Jim Brown
- Editor
- Kenneth Levis
- Director of Photography
- Jim Brown
- Producer
- Ginger Brown
- Producer
- Jim Brown
- Producer
- Harold Leventhal
- Producer
- George C. Stoney