Brucie,

Thanks for you referral for the sermon about "We Shall Overcome". site.

Some posters may be interested in two excerpts from that site:

"We Shall Overcome" has been sung in Indonesia, North Korea, Beirut, Soweto, and Tiananmen Square. It has been sung throughout Latin American as "Nosotros Venceremos" and "Todos Venceremos." A dozen years ago, when I toured Japan as a folksinger, I was greeted at a train station by a dozen students who spoke scarcely better English than I spoke Japanese, all singing "We shall obah-com."...

"John Lewis, now a Georgia congressman, had joined the civil rights movement as a teenager. His skull was fractured in Selma on the day still remembered as Bloody Sunday. "It was one of the most powerful and at the same time sacred moments," Lewis reflects, "when we would sing 'We shall overcome.'; And especially if you have been beaten, arrested, and jailed, and thrown into a paddy wagon, thrown into some waiting area, and the group just stand there and sing together 'we shall overcome.' It gave you a sense of faith, a sense of strength, to continue to struggle, to continue to push on. And you would lose your sense of fear. You were prepared to march into hell's fire."
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More at www.fculittle.org/sermons/overcome.html