Guy Carawan, whose rendition of the song We Shall Overcome became an anthem of the US civil rights movement, reportedly died at his home in Tennessee. He was 87. Carawan first performed We Shall Overcome to a group of Black students in Raleigh, North Carolina in 1960 and it quickly became the anthem of the civil rights movement. It was sung at demonstrations and rallies throughout the 1960s, including the 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery led by slain civil rights leader Martin luther King Jr.