which has brought images of Black heroines and “love letters to the city” to public spaces around the city. “We Shall Overcome” has been managed by a trusted group to ensure the integrity of the ...

Mourners sing 'We Shall Overcome' outside the historic Emanuel AME Church(Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images) How did a simple hymn rise to become a world-wide civil rights anthem, described by the US ...

Credit is finally going where it’s due. The song “We Shall Overcome” has left an indelible mark on American culture. Part gospel hymn, part protest anthem of the civil rights movement ...

and earlier this year a curated collection of those images was put on display at the Frist Art Museum in an exhibition titled "We Shall Overcome: Civil Rights and the Nashville Press, 1957-1968." ...

It is not a marching song. It is not necessarily defiant. It is a promise: "We shall overcome someday. Deep in my heart, I do believe." It has been a civil rights song for 50 years now ...

He delivered these words to an audience in Atlanta in 1961, and in this speech, he recognized the theme song that students had developed for the movement, "We shall overcome, deep in my heart I ...

Her most famous hymn, "If My Jesus Wills," is the likely source from which folk singer Pete Seeger derived the civil rights anthem "We Shall Overcome" when he first heard it sung by striking ...