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Tweet Share You might not know Zilphia Horton by name, but if you’ve attended a protest in the past half-century, you’ve probably sung her work. Horton arranged songs like “We Shall Overcome,” “We Shall Not Be Moved” and “This Little Light of Mine” for group singing, which helped them become anthems of the civil rights and labor movements. As the music and drama director at the Highlander Folk School in Monteagle, Tenn., she drew on the co...