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Biography
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Zilphia Horton
Real name: Zilphia Mae Johnson
American musician, community organizer, educator, Civil Rights activist, and folklorist, born 1910 in Paris, Arkansas and died 1956 of kidney failure after accidentally drinking a glass of typewriter cleaning fluid she mistook for water. She is best known for helping to transform the song "We Shall Overcome" into a Civil Rights anthem in 1946.