We Shall Overcome! Documentary of the March on Washington

Various Artists

On August 28th, 1963, more than 250,000 people from across the United States gathered in Washington DC to join in peaceful protest against racial segregation and demand equal rights legislation from Congress. This radio broadcast, with performances by Joan Baez, Odetta, Bob Dylan, Peter, Paul & Mary, and Marian Anderson, and featuring Martin Luther King Jr’s inspiring "I have a dream" speech, documents this pivotal event in the Civil Rights movement, where the nation came together to demand that everyone be "...free at last!" Four-page transcription of broadcast.

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101	We Shall Overcome / Press Conference / I Have a Dream / "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands" Joan Baez, John F. Kennedy, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Marion Anderson	25:10
201	Oh! Freedom / Remarks by Rabbi Joachim Prinz / "Ballad of Medgar Evers" / Remarks by John Lewis / Remarks by W.M. Young, J. Lewis, R. Wilkins / "If I Had a Hammer" / The Demands / The Pledge David Edwards, Odetta, Joachim Prinz, Bob Dylan, Floyd McKissick, Jim Farmer, John Lewis, A. Philip Randolph, Whitney M. Young, Jr., Roy Wilkins, Walter Reuther, Peter, Paul, and Mary, Bayard Rustin	28:14

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