Based on a 1903 gospel version by Reverend Charles Tindley of Philadelphia, and in 1946, the song for striking employees of the American Tobacco Company, "We Shall Overcome" spread through the country as an anthem for southern African American...
A captioned photo, published in the Nashville Times (1940), about “three city firemen who were overcome while fighting a $75,000 blaze which damaged Everett Beasley Dry Goods Company at 304-306 Broad Street Monday afternoon. The fire started...
A photograph of members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and Guy Carawan of the Highlander Folk School at a mass meeting at Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee, April 21, 1960, following the bombing of attorney Z. Alexander...