We Shall Overcome: Sacred Song on the Devil's Tongue

EVERYTHING you think you know about "We Shall Overcome" - is WRONG. This is the Shocking Untold Story of the iconic freedom-song, We Shall Overcome and its TRUE author; Louise Shropshire - a sharecropper's daughter and self-proclaimed "nobody", who through her love and dedication to God, Music and the African-American Church; overcomes racism and poverty to find herself in the inner-circle of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, Rev. Thomas A. Dorsey and the Civil Rights Movement. In the process, Shropshire composes and copyrights a popular Gospel-hymn, which is hijacked and secularized by Pete Seeger and four other folk-singers - then peddled for untold millions all over the globe by Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Bruce Springsteen and countless others. This extraordinary book not only describes the disturbing details surrounding the misappropriation of Louise Shropshire's sacred hymn, but also explores the historical attitudes of Black-exploitation, subjugation and racism in America - attitudes that enabled such an unthinkable act to occur in the first place - and metastasize over half a century. Although the Library of Congress would call We Shall Overcome; "The Most Powerful Song of the 20th Century" and the song would earn untold millions - Louise Shropshire would die penniless and unrecognized.