Briefly discuss the adaptation of the civil rights song “We Shall Overcome” from an indigenous African American tradition to a civil rights song.

What will be an ideal response?


1)  African American hymnodist C. Albert Tindley based “We Shall Overcome” on the church song “I’ll Overcome Some Day.”2)  Used for protest in 1945 by union workers in Charleston, South Carolina.3)  “theme song” of the Highlander Folk School in Tennessee4)  introduced into the civil rights movement 

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Thelonious Monk played the

a. drums. b. electric guitar. c. bass. d. piano

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What is a “derivative” work?

a. A reproduction of the work in a different form, such as a photograph that has been replicated as a drawing. b. Legal if you change the image by 50% or more; illegal if you change it less than 50%. c. Legal if all you’re doing is putting the image copyrighted by someone else on your own Web site. d. Always illegal regardless of who owns copyright.

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Which of the following determined that the speed of light is a universal constant, perhaps the only thing that never changes?

A. Einstein B. Planck C. Michelson and Morley D. Heisenberg

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