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Guy Carawan, Who Promoted โ€˜We Shall Overcomeโ€™ as Civil Rights Anthem, Dies

Emily Langer, THE WASHINGTON POST   (The Washington Post) โ€” The tempo marking for โ€œWe Shall Overcomeโ€ reads โ€œmoderately slow with determination.โ€ Slowly but with determination โ€” and with help from folk musician Guy Carawan โ€” is how that song was transformed from age-old spiritual to labor protest music to the anthem of the civil […]

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