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Labor Activist & Singer, Joe Glazer, 88, Dies

HeadlineSep 25, 2006

And the labor activist and singer Joe Glazer has died at the age of 88. In 1950 he was the first singer to record a version of the civil rights anthem “We Shall Overcome.”

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