“"In 1965, the US president Lyndon Johnson announced a new voting rights bill to enfranchise African Americans, ending with the words “And we shall overcome”. His reference was to the song We Shall Overcome, which had been introduced to the US civil rights movement by Guy Carawan, the folk singer and political activist, who has died aged 87. "The origins of the song lay in African-American religious music, but as We Will Overcome it was taken up by striking tobacco workers, black and white, in 1945. Some of them later sang it at the Highlander Folk school, an adult education centre for union organisers in Monteagle, Tennessee, where Zilphia Horton, the school’s music director, taught the song to union and civil rights activists, including Pete Seeger, who changed its title to We Shall Overcome." http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/may/06/guy-carawan #RIP #GuyCarawan”

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