He says "We Shall Overcome" sustained him throughout the years of struggle — especially those moments when demonstrators who had been beaten, arrested or detained would stand and sing it together.

Editor’s note: This essay won first prize in the annual Fairfield University Martin Luther King Jr. essay contest open to Bridgeport middle-school students. We shall overcome is a promise ...

While the recent translation of “We Shall Overcome” is a moving addition to the Yiddish protest cannon, it is not the only Yiddish song associated with the American Civil Rights movement.

Folk singer Guy Carawan didn’t write “We Shall Overcome,” the galvanizing anthem of the civil rights movement that the Library of Congress called “the most powerful song of the 20th ...

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.

A veteran of 40 years of demonstrations, ... "We Shall Overcome". Throughout the remainder of the 1960s and the 1970s she continued to campaign on various issues and was arrested several times.

Folk singer Guy Carawan didn’t write “We Shall Overcome,” the galvanizing anthem of the civil-rights movement that the Library of Congress called “the most powerful song of the 20th ...

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 ...