You knew that if your mind was not staying on freedom, something was going to be overlooked, not carried out.” –Hollis Watkins
The song did evolve as it moved through time. It happened as it became a song used in many communities. –Candie Carawan
Charlie Cobb & Candie Carawan: We Shall Overcome
As March on Washington ends, SNCC staff and friends gather to sing, August 1963, Danny Lyon, Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement 85, dektol.wordpress.com
I’d been singing it for a long time and didn’t realize the power of the song and the commitment that was behind the song. When I learned the story about that song, it just gave me a lot of pride.–Charles Neblett
Charles Neblett: Oh Freedom
After Schwerner, Goodman, and Chaney were murdered, what they did was dragging the rivers, seeing if they could find their bodies. But what they did, they started dragging up bodies. –Charles Neblett
Charles Neblett & Hollis Watkins: In the Mississippi River
We stayed and sang in jail. We didn’t sing Oginga Odinga. We hadn’t written it. —Worth Long
Charlie Cobb, Worth Long & Charles Neblett: Oginga Odinga
Candie Carawan: They Go Wild Over Me
