00:00:02with what i like to call songs that
00:00:05inspire a movement this isn’t
00:00:07necessarily a movement within itself
00:00:09this is kind of songs that are so
00:00:11powerful that they seem to be associated
00:00:14over and over again as political protest
00:00:17songs no matter what the movement you
00:00:19can find a way to associate these songs
00:00:21with them the best example of a song
00:00:24like this is we shall overcome there’s a
00:00:28lot a bit of speculation as to where
00:00:30exactly this song derives from a lot of
00:00:32people think that it comes from Reverend
00:00:33Charles Tilton’s i’ll overcome which was
00:00:36written somewhere around the 19 around
00:00:38me the the turn of the 20th century
00:00:40we’re not positive executive and as the
00:00:42story goes it’s I mean it’s it’s just
00:00:45one of these great stories we’re like a
00:00:46you know an african-american women in
00:00:48Charleston heard it and saying about a
00:00:50at a tobacco company you know and and
00:00:52she sold it to her to a white woman her
00:00:55friends ofili a Horton some who sang it
00:00:58to the finders of a high grove Folk
00:01:00Festival and one of those people saying
00:01:02it to Pete Seeger all of this to say
00:01:04eventually the song got back to pete
00:01:05seeger now Pete Seeger is someone who
00:01:08definitely is is phenomenal I mean we
00:01:10know him as part of like folk movement
00:01:11we know him as someone who was a civil
00:01:13activist he produced sing out which was
00:01:15a magazine and pete seeger is also the
00:01:18same person who who I mean how many
00:01:21times is his man been to Washington it
00:01:23just led people in song you know I mean
00:01:25this is the same guy who who had
00:01:27everyone chanting John Lennon’s give
00:01:28peace a chance at the La Jolla at the
00:01:30march on Washington and 69 and it’s pete
00:01:34seeger who who really popularized we
00:01:37shall overcome he actually changed it
00:01:39from i’ll overcome to we shall overcome
00:01:40and at some point in the 60s you know
00:01:44when everything was being copyrighted
00:01:45nobody really knew exactly where this
00:01:47song come from or what the story was so
00:01:50Pete Seeger went ahead and he
00:01:52copyrighted it all the royalties from
00:01:53this song go to the we shall overcome
00:01:55fund which is administered by highland
00:01:59during used to give small grants for
00:02:01cultural expression involving
00:02:02african-american organizations in the
00:02:03u.s. south which is really cool and like
00:02:06go Pete Seeger for doing that you know
00:02:08and
00:02:09you don’t care about a lot of people who
00:02:11get the rights to songs or copyright
00:02:12songs and then do something really good
00:02:14and fit Pete Seeger someone who’s really
00:02:15turned around and he kind of said i’m
00:02:16gonna copy write this off but I take
00:02:18responsibility for the fact that I
00:02:20didn’t write it and every done that
00:02:22comes in from this song I’m gonna get
00:02:23back to a social activist cause so which
00:02:26is why I thought it was great to end
00:02:28with we shall overcome isn’t that a
00:02:30wonderful message
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