The Civil Rights History Project: Survey of Collections and Repositories

We shall overcome

Repository: Wisconsin Historical Society. Library-Archives

Collection Description (Extant): Disc recording of portions of the August 28, 1963, March on Washington produced by the Council for United Civil Rights Leadership. Included are remarks or performances by Marian Anderson; Joan Baez; Bob Dylan; Martin Luther King, Jr.; John Lewis; Odetta; Peter, Paul, and Mary; A. Philip Randolph; Walter Reuther; Bayard Rustin; and Roy Wilkins.

Origin Info: Council for United Civil Rights Leadership

Access Copy Note: A cassette tape listening copy is available for this recording.

Date(s): 1963

Existing IDs: Tape 1276A; Disc 86A

Extent: 1 disc recording

Language: English

Rights (CRHP): Contact the repository which holds the collection for information on rights

Subjects:

Civil rights demonstrations--Washington (D.C.)
Civil rights movements--United States--Songs and music
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Washington, D.C., 1963

Genres:

Sound recordings
Speeches