By Tom DeignanIn 1957, Martin Luther King. Jr. paid a visit to a Tennessee community organizing camp where he heard Pete Seeger perform a revised version of an old gospel tune for the first time.Within a decade, “We Shall Overcome” would become an anthem for civil rights marchers from Birmingham to Belfast.
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