After spending time in Los Angeles during the 1992 riots, Brooks co-wrote the gospel-country-rock hybrid " We Shall Be Free " to express his desire for tolerance.

* How Much Shall We Bet — A story about betting on the long term evolution of mankind.

Musical stars such as Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers were among the most popular and highly respected personalities in Hollywood during the classical era ; the Fred and Ginger pairing was particularly successful, resulting in a number of classic films, such as Top Hat ( 1935 ), Swing Time ( 1936 ) and Shall We Dance ( 1937 ).

In 2009 We Shall Remain ( 2009 ), a television documentary by Ric Burns and part of the American Experience series, presented a five-episode series " from a Native American perspective ".

See his From Pluralist to Patriotic Politics: Putting Practice First, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000, ISBN 0-19-829688-6, a work of political philosophy ; and his Shall We Dance?

; " Some Enchanted Evening ", from South Pacific ; " Getting to Know You " and " Shall We Dance " from The King and I ; and the title song as well as " Climb Ev ' ry Mountain " from The Sound of Music.

" Magnetic " protest songs were aimed at attracting people to the movement and promoting group solidarity and commitment, as for example, " Eyes on the Prize " and " We Shall Overcome ".

* Heindel, Max, How Shall We Know Christ at His Coming ?, May 1913 ( stenographic report of a lecture, Los Angeles ), ISBN 0-911274-64-2 www

", someone began singing " We Shall Overcome ", and the crowd reacted with amusement and general good humor mixed with " growing and intensive hostility ".

"' We Shall Rebuild Anew a Powerful Nation ': UNRRA, Internationalism and National Reconstruction in Poland ," Journal of Contemporary History, July 2008, Vol.

* March 15 – President Lyndon B. Johnson makes his " We Shall Overcome " speech.

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* Blattberg, Charles Shall We Dance?

Other songs associated with Baez include " Farewell, Angelina ", " Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word ", " Joe Hill ", " Sweet Sir Galahad " and " We Shall Overcome ".

*" What Shall We Do With The Drunken Nurker "( to the tune of " Drunken Sailor ")

Together, from 1933 to 1939, they made nine musical films at RKO: Flying Down to Rio ( 1933 ), The Gay Divorcee ( 1934 ), Roberta ( 1935 ), Top Hat ( 1935 ), Follow the Fleet ( 1936 ), Swing Time ( 1936 ), Shall We Dance ( 1937 ), Carefree ( 1938 ), and The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle ( 1939 ) ( The Barkleys of Broadway ( 1949 ) was produced later at MGM ).

Rogers also introduced some celebrated numbers from the Great American Songbook, songs such as Harry Warren and Al Dubin's " The Gold Diggers ' Song ( We're in the Money )" from Gold Diggers of 1933 ( 1933 ), " Music Makes Me " from Flying Down to Rio ( 1933 ), " The Continental " from The Gay Divorcee ( 1934 ), Irving Berlin's " Let Yourself Go " from Follow the Fleet ( 1936 ), the Gershwins ' " Embraceable You " from Girl Crazy and " They All Laughed ( at Christopher Columbus )" from Shall We Dance ( 1937 ).

Furthermore, in song duets with Astaire, she co-introduced Berlin's " I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket " from Follow the Fleet ( 1936 ), Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields's " Pick Yourself Up " and " A Fine Romance " from Swing Time ( 1936 ) and the Gershwins ' " Let's Call the Whole Thing Off " from Shall We Dance ( 1937 ).

Astaire and Rogers made ten films together, including The Gay Divorcee, Roberta ( 1935 ), Top Hat ( 1935 ), Follow the Fleet ( 1936 ), Swing Time ( 1936 ), Shall We Dance ( 1937 ), and Carefree ( 1938 ).

He first presented Jerome Kern's " The Way You Look Tonight " in Swing Time ( 1936 ); the Gershwins ' " They Can't Take That Away From Me " in Shall We Dance ( 1937 ), " A Foggy Day " and " Nice Work if You Can Get it " in A Damsel in Distress ( 1937 ); Johnny Mercer's " One for My Baby " from The Sky's the Limit ( 1943 ) and " Something's Gotta Give " from Daddy Long Legs ( 1955 ); and Harry Warren and Arthur Freed's " This Heart of Mine " from Ziegfeld Follies ( 1946 ).

For example, with his sister Adele, he co-introduced the Gershwins ' " I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise " from Stop Flirting ( 1923 ), " Fascinating Rhythm " in Lady, Be Good ( 1924 ), " Funny Face " in Funny Face ( 1927 ); and, in duets with Ginger Rogers, he presented Irving Berlin's " I'm Putting all My Eggs in One Basket " in Follow the Fleet ( 1936 ), Jerome Kern's " Pick Yourself Up " and " A Fine Romance " in Swing Time ( 1936 ), along with The Gershwins ' " Let's Call The Whole Thing Off " from Shall We Dance ( 1937 ).

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Additional performances in film include King of the Gypsies ( 1978 ), Tempest ( 1982 ), Compromising Positions ( 1985 ), Little Women ( 1994 ), Stepmom ( 1998 ), Anywhere but Here ( 1999 ), Cradle Will Rock ( 1999 ), The Banger Sisters ( 2002 ), Shall We Dance ( 2004 ), Alfie ( 2004 ), Romance & Cigarettes ( 2005 ), Elizabethtown ( 2005 ) and Enchanted ( 2007 ).

Additionally, she wrote a poem in response called " We Shall Keep the Faith ".

He also experimented with his childlike " painted poems ," many of which were to be published posthumously in the 1984 collection What Shall We Do Without Us.

Helped turn We Shall Overcome and other hymns into songs of the Civil Rights movement.

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A lower banner declared in French, " Motherland or Death, We Shall Overcome ".

Label sequence starts at 99004 to 99008, with the final recording We Shall Overcome ( for label number 99008 ) that was recorded in the Greystone Ballroom was withdrawn and transferred to GORDY 7023B of I Have A Dream speech by Rev.

Gospel legend Mahalia Jackson sang " How I Got Over ", musician Bob Dylan performed several songs, including " Only a Pawn in Their Game ", about the culturally fed racial hatred amongst Southern whites that led to the assassination of Medgar Evers ; and " When the Ship Comes In ", during which he was joined by fellow folk singer Joan Baez, who earlier had led the crowds in several verses of " We Shall Overcome " and " Oh Freedom ".

In 1974, Jeanette was invited to an event honoring Mrs. Coretta Scott King, when Mrs. King heard her rendition of " We Shall Overcome ", she made a special point of telling Jeanette that she had been moved by her voice.

" We Shall Overcome " is a protest song that became a key anthem of the African-American Civil Rights Movement ( 1955 – 1968 ).

The song was published in 1947 as " We Will Overcome " in the People's Songs Bulletin ( a publication of People's Songs, an organization of which Pete Seeger was the director and guiding spirit ).

However, a letter printed on the front page of the February 1909, United Mine Workers Journal states that, " Last year at a strike, we opened every meeting with a prayer, and singing that good old song, ' We Will Overcome.

Legendary gospel singer, pianist, and composer, Roberta Martin, also based in Chicago, composed another version of " I'll Overcome ", the last 12 bars of which are the same as the current version of ' We Shall Overcome.

'" Thus by the end of 1945 several versions of " I Will Overcome " were current as a gospel song, while on the South Carolina picket line, Lucille Simmons and other striking tobacco workers were singing a slow version of the song as, " We Will Overcome ".

Tindley's " I'll Overcome Someday " thus provides the structure for " We Shall Overcome ", with both text and melody having undergone a process of alteration.

In August 2012, the book " We Shall Overcome: Sacred Song on the Devil's Tongue " ( ISBN 978-0615475288 ), was published.

Written by 30-year music-industry veteran, Isaias Gamboa, the book is the product of three years of exhaustive research and demonstrates in extraordinary detail that We Shall Overcome was in fact derived from a popular copyrighted Baptist hymn entitled, " If My Jesus Wills "-written in 1942 by an African American Baptist choir director named Louise Shropshire.

The book also reveals that Shropshire's song was COPYRIGHTED in 1954-leaving no doubt that her sacred hymn was the original inspiration for We Shall Overcome-not Charles Albert Tindley's " I'll Overcome " as has been alleged for over 52 years.

In addition to striking musical similarities between " If My Jesus Wills " and " We Shall Overcome ", Louise Shropshire's lyrics shine a bright light on a fifty-two year old historical inaccuracy.

During the Presidential Campaign of Henry A. Wallace, " We Will Overcome " was printed in Bulletin No. 3 ( Sept., 1948 ), 8, of People's Songs with an introduction by Horton saying that she had learned it from the interracial Congress of Industrial Organizations ( CIO ) Food and Tobacco Workers ' Union workers and had found it to be extremely powerful.