Pete Seeger talks about the history of "We Shall Overcome" (2006)

[@joantirak313]

This is history we ALL need to know. How refreshing to hear it from the lips and heart of our beloved Pete Seeger!

[@TheGromkath]

R.I.P. the voice of a generation.

[@pbrn1729]

I saw Pete Seeger when has a member of the Weavers and again many years later with Arlo Guthrie! Pete was an original and one of the best!! It’s great to hear him and his music here🙏🏻🤩

[@MARIANSCATLIFFE]

My dad Fred Katz knew Ronmie Gilbert of the weavers she was great and Pete was a fine humanitarian

[@lexyswope]

I've always heard great things about him, but hadn't until recently heard him. Sure missed out for a long time. A truly wonderful person.

[@piano671]

RIP PETE SEEGER. Dieser Song von dir, berührte und eroberte die ganze Welt.

[@noahshirsat8732]

Wonderful declaration of hope "We will over come someday......

[@conrodgayle307]

Giving credit to Atron Twigg and Kenneth Morris, would took Rev. Tindley song and put the words together for this one. But it was Lucille Simmons, in 1945 that help bring the song to the prominence that it is today. She started singing it at a labour protest in SC; and change the word I to "WE". She then brought the song to Highlander Folk School,where she shared it with other labor activists. At the time , Zilphia Horton, head of the school’s cultural program, learned the song and taught it to Pete Seeger. He (Pete), sang it when Martin Luther King visited to give a speech 10 years later and the song gained popularity until today. So I give big credit to the late Lucille Simmons Whipper who dead this past August 2021.

[@hortensebediam1032]

RIP Pete Seeger 1919 - 2014

[@GloriaWaslyn]

Forever Pete!

[@decostabasildesanthony6261]

Thank You LORD For Sending Him in this WORLD !

[@pkt6153]

RIP and thank you. So many songs we thought were "Traditional" were actually written by him!

[@ilae.williams7675]

He has STOLEN this hymn from the Black Baptist churches of Alabama, I know because I sang it during the pastorates of my father and grandfather in Alabama--pastorates that total 100 years...💯

[@ellenw391]

Did you even watch the video where he is giving credit for the history of it? Good grief he did not steal anything. He modernized and put it into words that people are singing and sadly need to this day. And for the love of everything holy stop being so divisive. That is the root of everything that's wrong in this country today!

[@williamnebuwa1537]

R.I.P thanks.. a lot

[@johnwright2911]

Thank you for your bravery and talent!

[@donjenkins8925]

Your welcome.

[@ted1091]

I love the music history. Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon with whom Seeger worked closely, also gives us that history. She will say "This song shoes up in 19__ in __________ and again in 19___ in _______." It is riveting. All thrse wonderful civil rights singers make it all seem so effortless. But there is tremendous discernment behind all of it.

[@chpchp3624]

Thank you! , RIP

[@jesusestrada7314]

I got to meet Pete Segar in Eugene, Oregon in 1967/68 at a anti-war protest. He apparently was lost as to who he was to stand by for a moment, when he asked me if I would mind if he could walk along by me. (I'll be honest old white men from my past were not very welcoming and very arrogant), they would have just crowded folks out without regard to anyone else. He was asked to moved to the front. After the march he came up to me and said forgive me for not introducing myself ,,,,,a friend came up to meet and asked if I knew Pete Segar?,,, I do now I said.

[@lexyswope]

I didn't get to Eugene until 1971. You should feel special to have been touched by greatness.

[@TravisLoneWolfWalsh]

never another like Pete

[@cutenihilist]

Pete!!!

[@terrywestbrook-lienert2296]

The background of the famous Civil Rights anthem, as told by the late Pete Seeger.

[@spiritof1983]

A towering figure. Thank you. RIP.

[@laurenceberube8792]

Hey do you know where that video was first diffused ?

[@folkarchivist]

For a while, it was freely downloadable (almost four hours of raw footage in DVD quality) from archive.org. But, alas, they later deleted it. To my knowledge, the footage was never shown/released in its entirety.

[@ProjectDystopia]

R.I.P.

[@sevinjbakhishli]

how is the letter he mentioned called?

[@glennparsons8727]

💖💖✊✊✊

[@FelixScottJr]

This poor man is so underrated I can't believe how stupid people are

[@sevtaptincer8194]

He is not underrated at all. He was honoured by Obama and Bruce Springsteen introduced him to younger generation

[@ngph888]

r.i.p he was a great man and he made we shall over come and marthin used to sing this with his friends long time ago when he was waiting for his lunch :D

[@unwavery]

what a legend. here's some history of communism in the USA and a bit of music theory, about this one song I know so well.

[@jamietfranklin]

Highlander!

[@randysandford4033]

Lived in the same town as Pete along the Hudson River. Grew up during Viet Nam period. Never could stand the guy. Anti-American and Pied Piper to young people like me during that time. Socialist hiding under Civil Rights. We were all against War but he never showed any respect for the young guys who went and gave their lives so he could sing his stupid songs. I lost respect for him. Several of his kids went to school with my younger brother.

[@unwavery]

if you dont respect him why did you look this up, bozo?

[@randysandford4033]

@@unwavery I didn't look this up, bozo, I came acrossed it by accident. Beaconites treated him as some great celebrity, blind to the fact that he was grooming young people towards socialism.

[@katialiccione3641]

Why is it a bad thing to be anti-American if the U.S. is an empire that feeds on the blood and misery of so many a people around this world? Just because you happen to be born there? Every one of us has an appreciation for our land and what it may have given us but letting that love turn into a blind patriotism at the service of atrocities is immoral.