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 ...

Music producer researched the anthem for four years Says the sheet music%2C lyrics from her hymn nearly match the song Folk singer Pete Seeger has said no one knows where the song came from We Shall ...

In 1962, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. came to Cincinnati to speak at a banquet for friend and fellow civil rights leader Fred Shuttlesworth. Hotels were filled, so Shuttlesworth, the pastor of ...

Sung by a crowd of 250,000 at the 1963 March on Washington, ‘We Shall Overcome” is considered by many activists and historians as the theme song of the Civil Rights Movement. The song has a deep ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – A powerful moment was caught on camera at an upstate New York protest. Officer Armonde “Moe” Badger with the Buffalo Police Department led protesters in the hymn, “We Shall Overcome” ...

Her music did. It drove change. It stirred a nation. And yet, those were the last words of Louise Shropshire. Thanks to Isaias Gamboa and Eric Abercrumbie, that fervent wish is becoming a reality.

Jan. 27 (UPI) --The civil rights anthem We Shall Overcome is now in the public domain as a result of copyright protection settlement. Song publisher Ludlow Music on Friday agreed that the melody and ...

Part of the classic Civil Rights song "We Shall Overcome" has now entered the public domain after a U.S. judge struck down its copyright protections last Friday, reports Rick Karr for NPR. "I couldn't ...

Listen to the original 20-minute audio documentary as it aired in 1999, on what would have been Martin Luther King Jr.'s 70th birthday. It is not a marching song. It is not necessarily defiant. It is ...