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 ...
In 1962, 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 Revelation ...