Documentaries in the Library October 16

We Shall Overcome

We Shall Overcome, narrated by Harry Belafonte, provides a history of the song, We Shall Overcome, and its influence on the civil rights movement. The video features performances by Joan Baez, Guy Carawan, The Freedom Singers, Taj Mahal, Moving Star Hall Singers, Peter, Paul & Mary, and Pete Seeger.

Tufara Waller Muhammed

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Selected Bibliography

BOOKS

Biggers, Jeff. The United States of Appalachia: How Southern Mountaineers Brought Independence, Culture, and Enlightenment to America. Emeryville, CA: Shoemaker & Hoard, 2006. F217.A65B54 2006

Carawan, Guy. Ain’t You Got a Right to the Tree of Life?: The People of Johns Island, South Carolina--Their Faces, Their Words, and Their Songs. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1989. E185.93.S7C3 1989

Devoto, Pat Cunningham. The Summer We Got Saved. New York: Warner Books, 2005. PS3554 .E92835 S86 2005 fiction

Dunaway, David King. How Can I Keep from Singing: Pete Seeger. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1981. ML420.S445D8

Dunson, Josh. Freedom in the Air: Song Movements of the Sixties. New York: International Publishers, 1965. ML3551.D85

Gayle, Addison. Bondage, Freedom, and Beyond: The Prose of Black Americans. Garden City, NY: Zenith Books, 1971. PS647.N35G3

Halberstam, David. The Children. New York: Random House, 1998. E185.61 .H195 1998

Oldendorf, Sandra Brenneman. Highlander Folk School and the South Carolina Sea Island Citizenship Schools: Implications for the Social Studies. Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms International, 1989. LC5301.M65O4 1987

Reed, T. V. The Art of Protest: Culture and Activism from the Civil Rights Movement to the Streets of Seattle. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005. HN90.R3 R395 2005

Sanger, Kerran. "When the Spirit Says Sing!": The Role of Freedom Songs in the Civil Rights Movement. New York: Garland, 1995. ML3556.S26 1995

Seeger, Pete and Robert Reiser. Everybody Says Freedom. New York: Norton, 1989. ML3550.S43 1989

Seeger, Pete. The Incompleat Folksinger. Edited by Jo Metcalf Schwartz. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1972. ML60.S444I5

Weissman, Dick. Which Side Are You On?: An Inside History of the Folk Music Revival in America. New York: Continuum, 2005. ML3551 .W43 2005

MUSICAL SCORES

Blood, Peter and Annie Patterson, eds. Rise Up Singing: The Group Singing Songbook. Bethlehem, PA: Sing Out Corp., 2004. M1977.C5R57 2004

Carawan, Guy, and Candie Carawan, eds. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Songs of the Freedom Movement. New York: Oak Publications, 1968. M1629.C2F7

Carawan, Guy, and Candie Carawan, eds. Sing for Freedom: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement Through its Songs. Bethlehem, PA: Sing Out Corp., 1990. M1977.C47S56 1990

Carawan, Guy, and Candie Carawan, eds. We Shall Overcome!: Songs of the Southern Freedom Movement. New York: Oak Publications, 1963. M1629.C2W4

Yarrow, Peter, Noel Paul Stookey, and Mary Travers, eds. Peter, Paul, and Mary:Around the Campfire. Miami, FL: Warner Bros. Publications, 1998. M1630.18.P484A8 1998

SOUND RECORDINGS

Kanda, Megumi. Amazing Grace. Albany Records Troy 656. CD12366

Seeger, Pete. Pete Seeger’s Greatest Hits. Columbia Records CK65711. CD7742

We shall overcome!. Folkways Records F-5592. E185.615 .G745 2001

Armstrong, Louis. Louis Armstrong and His Friends. RCA Victor Gold Series 74321747942. CD8723

The Nashville Sit-in Story: Songs and Scenes of Nashville Lunch Counter Desegregation. Smithsonian Folkways F-55590. F444.N257N37 2000

Seeger, Pete. If I Had a Hammer: Songs of Hope and Struggle. Smithsonian Folkways SF CD 40096. M1629.S44I4 1998

Voices of the Civil Rights Movement: Black American Freedom Songs, 1960-1966. Smithsonian Folkways CD SF 40084. M1670 .V6 1997

Been in the Storm So Long: A Collection of Spirituals, Folk Tales and Children’s Games from Johns Island, South Carolina. Smithsonian Folkways CD SF 40031. M1670.B4

Smithsonian Folkways American Roots Collection. Smithsonian Folkways SF CD 40062. M1630.18.S626 1996

Sing for Freedom: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement Through its Songs. Smithsonian/Folkways CD SF 40032. CD7051

Black American History in Ballad, Song and Prose. Smithsonian Folkways F-5804. CD13022

VIDEOS

Carry It On: A Musical Legacy, DVD. Burbank, CA: Rhino Home Video, 2004. M1630.18 .P484C37 2004

Pure Pete Seeger, VHS. Princeton, NJ: Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 1994. ML420.S445 P87 1994

The Songs Are Free: With Bernice Johnson Reagon, DVD. Princeton, NJ: Films for the Humanities and Sciences, 1997. ML3556.S66 2004

The Telling Takes Me Home, DVD. N.p.: Heatcar Productions, 2005. M1977 .C47 T44 2005

We Shall Overcome, VHS. San Francisco, CA: California Newsreel, 1989. M1670 .W4 1989