We Shall Overcome
- Program
- We Shall Overcome
- Producing Organization
- WGBH Educational Foundation
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip-15-13zs9fcr
- NOLA Code
- WSOC
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- Description
- Program Description
- We Shall Overcome outlines the objectives and methods of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. The executive secretary of S. N. C. C., James Forman is interviewed by Dr. Kenneth Clark, professor of psychology at City College of New York. The program also contains films of S. N. C. C.'s activities in aiding Negroes in the South to register for voting. These films were taken by independent producer Stan Hirson, a former staff member of WGBH-TV. The workshops show students how to prepare residents of their communities to register. Many of the young people conducting these workshops are Southern Negroes who have taken a one-year leave of absence from college to work for S. N. C. C. The group also has approximately thirty white students from the North working during the summer vacation registering Negroes in southwest Georgia. According to Mr. Forman, the average age of S.N.C.C. members is twenty-three. He himself is thirty-four. We Shall Overcome is a production of WGBH-TV and it runs approximately 30 minutes. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
- Broadcast Date
- 1963-08-12
- Asset type
- Program
- Genres
- Documentary
- Talk Show
- Topics
- Race and Ethnicity
- Social Issues
- Media type
- other
- Credits
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Producing Organization: WGBH Educational Foundation
- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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- Citations
- Chicago: “We Shall Overcome,” 1963-08-12, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed August 28, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-13zs9fcr.
- MLA: “We Shall Overcome.” 1963-08-12. American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. August 28, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-13zs9fcr>.
- APA: We Shall Overcome. Boston, MA: American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-13zs9fcr