Pete Seeger’s adaptation of “We Shall Overcome” became the defining song of the Civil Rights Era, providing a rallying cry throughout the quest for equality. In 2006, Seeger, who died Monday ...

AMY GOODMAN: Pete Seeger, can you tell us about “We Shall Overcome”? PETE SEEGER: I thought, in 1946, when I learned it from a white woman who taught in a union labor school, ...

Pete Seeger became a prominent civil rights activist and helped popularize the anthem, “We Shall Overcome.” He was also a vocal critic of the Vietnam War and inspired a generation of protest ...

And we shall overcome.” Martin Luther King, Jr. certainly never forgot the song. In a sermon in Memphis just days before his death in 1968, King said, “There’s a little song that we sing in ...

Pete Seeger did not invent “We Shall Overcome,” but he made it his and made it everyone else’s. He never claimed he invented it, and he never diminished the people who had, even if their ...

How exactly did an African-American spiritual from the 19th century become "We Shall Overcome," an iconic ... “They seize upon a few vague, inconsistent statements from Pete Seeger, ...

A Boss Nod to Seeger: 'We Shall Overcome' A loose, fun, freewheeling energy dominates the new Bruce Springsteen CD, from the very first strains of songs like Old Dan Tucker, Jesse James, Erie ...

We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions honors socialist folk singer Pete Seeger, collecting a small part of the music Seeger helped to spread during his decades of making music and political activism.

Pete Seeger celebrating his 90th birthday in New York on May 3, 2009. ... the song "We Shall Overcome," a song the Library of Congress called, with considerable justification, ...

Springsteen’s cover album of folk singer Pete Seeger tunes sidesteps some of Seeger’s chestnuts (“If I Had a Hammer,” “Where Have All the Flowers Gone?” and &#82… ...

A six-CD Pete Seeger collection includes 20 previously unreleased recordings, including "We Shall Overcome." Pete Seeger Box Set Due for Singer's 100th Birthday: Listen to Song ...

We Shall Overcome — which was recorded live in Springsteen’s ... organ and accordion — is his most jubilant disc since Born in the U.S.A. and more fun than a tribute to Pete Seeger has any ...