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, the origin of ...

A previous version of this article contained incorrect information about the neighborhood where Louise Shropshire lived. WCPO regrets the error. Sandra Jones Mitchell ...

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 ...

Civil rights activist, Louise Shropshire gets her just due decades later. For decades, activists have tried to get Louise Shropshire the credit she deserves for the famous civil rights song ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - Echoes of the song “We Shall Overcome” reverberates through the nation at marches, around Dr. Martin Luther King Junior’s birthday and during Black History Month. But the ...

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” ...

A U.S. District Court ruled on September 8 that the first verse of the iconic song of the civil rights movement, “We Shall Overcome,” should be free of a copyright. I’m usually an advocate of freeing ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BUFFALO, N.Y. – A powerful moment was caught ...