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R: Martin Luther King said what is happening is wrong and he and a bunch of other people held hands and walked in the street and sang, but I can’t remember what song he sang.
D: We Shall Overcome?
R: That’s it. (She starts singing) We shall overcome, we shall overcome. . .how does it go?
D: (I sing) We shall overcome some day. Oh, deep in my heart. I do believe. We shall overcome some day.
R: When Mr. Hirsch started to teach it, I cried a little.
D: It makes me cry too.

We found Martin Luther King quoting it in a speech but we are still looking for a version of him singing. We then listened to Bruce Springsteen, Pete Seeger, and Joan Baez sing their versions. It blasted out of the speakers over dinner, and Rose kept leaving her place to sit closer. While she waited for me to finish nursing David to sleep, I could hear her singing it in bed.

She wants to learn all the songs they sang as they marched.



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