Talk:How I Got Over

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'How I Got Over' is one of the standard works in the Black gospel repetoire, just like 'Precious Lord, Take My Hand' by Thomas Dorsey, which has a Wikipedia page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take_My_Hand%2C_Precious_Lord) of its own. It has been recorded by EVERY major Black gospel singer. If you examine Aretha Franklin's page and that of Mahalia Jackson, and follow the links to their CDs you will see this listed among both. On Mahalia's Wikipage it is listed among her best known songs, and until I created this page today, that link was dead. The song's significance to the American civil rights movement is evidenced by Mahalia Jackson's historic performance of it at the August 28, 1963 March on Washington (when Dr. Martin Luther King gave his famous 'I Have A Dream' speech). Aretha Franklin gave a legendary performance of it on her landmark 'Amazing Grace' album. --Agriffinny 02:01, 2 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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from time to time, someone comes and makes an edit that asserts this song was not written by Clara Ward, but by W. Herbert Brewster. the whole article is unsourced so idk, but enough people think it was brewster and not ward, that now i wonder who wrote it. -badmachine 23:51, 7 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]