[Ads-l] Antedating of "We Shall Overcome"

[Bill Mullins]

>   Maybe Bill Mullins might consider writing up an item for publication concerning his work
>   on We Shall Overcome.  American Speech would be a logical journal to submit it to.
>
>   Gerald Cohen

While it is gratifying to see such attention paid to this, is it really worth more than submitting to the OED and elsewhere as an antedating?  Given that Tindley's usage didn't stick, it seems like this is more of a coincidence than it is relevant to the origin of "We Shall Overcome" as the rallying cry it was from the 1950s on.

And practically speaking, I'm not a member of the ADS, have never seen a copy of American Speech, and have no idea what their submission guidelines are or what format a write-up should be in.



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