We Shall Overcome! by AFRO Staff August 16, 2018 January 25, 2022. Share this: ... Together they created a platform to offer images and stories of hope to advance their community.

Illustrating lyrics of the civil rights protest anthem “We Shall Overcome,” Collier (All Because You Matter) demonstrates the song’s continuing significance, layering dynamic, vibrantly hued ...

“We Shall Overcome” became a cornerstone of civil rights sit-ins, marches, and gatherings of all kinds, especially in the South, lifting the spirits of African Americans and their allies who were ...

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 ...

Fortunately for history, the force of Johnson’s “We Shall Overcome” speech (as it came to be known) was not undermined by his own moral contradictions, as they were emerging.