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Iowa Fight Song. The Iowa Fight Song is one of three fight songs currently used by the University of Iowa Hawkeye Marching Band along with On Iowa and Roll Along Iowa. The music and lyrics were written by Iowa native Meredith Willson, author of The Music Man, in 1951.
Freedom songs in the Civil Rights era: How We Shall Overcome began. As a young civil rights activist, Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon saw the church and school assembly songs of her childhood become the battle songs of... The songs we were singing actually echoed where we were, said historian Bernice Johnson Reagon.