Briefly discuss the adaptation of the civil rights song “We Shall Overcome” from an indigenous African American tradition to a civil rights song.

What will be an ideal response?

1)  African American hymnodist C. Albert Tindley based “We Shall Overcome” on the church song “I’ll Overcome Some Day.”2)  Used for protest in 1945 by union workers in Charleston, South Carolina.3)  “theme song” of the Highlander Folk School in Tennessee4)  introduced into the civil rights movement