We Shall Overcome...popularized by Pete Seeger, Joan Baez and many others, for more than half a century, most of the world has believed that the author of, We Shall Overcome was "unknown". Thanks to the age of information, recent scholarship has proven that the true original author of, We Shall Overcome-- the iconic anthem of the African American Civil Rights Movement was in fact, Rev. Mother Louise Shropshire and that, We Shall Overcome was adapted from Shropshire's Gospel Hymn,  "If My Jesus Wills".