CINCINNATI (FOX19) - The undisputed anthem of the civil rights movement has its roots in the Queen City, though it took more than 50 years for the world to recognize it. “We Shall Overcome” is a ...

As marchers took to the streets of Boston in late April to demand justice for Freddie Gray, some of them began to sing: “We shall overcome, we shall overcome, we shall overcome some day ...” It wasn’t ...

“We Shall Overcome” is an A-side on America’s jukebox, a song embraced as the anthem of the 1960s civil rights movement. And there’s a tantalizing Cincinnati connection. Sometime between 1932 and 1942 ...

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 ...

Can anyone claim possession of “We Shall Overcome”? Is it property of the civil-rights movement? Does it belong to the union workers who first sang the song as we know it? Is it simply a piece 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 ...

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 ...

Last year, a federal judge ruled that the long-claimed copyright to the song “Happy Birthday to You” was invalid. Now the same could happen for another iconic tune: “We Shall Overcome.” On Tuesday, ...

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” ...

Pete Seeger celebrating his 90th birthday in New York on May 3, 2009. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) Not that there's anything wrong with going after the money if you think you have legal entitlement to it, ...

Pete Seeger celebrating his 90th birthday in New York on May 3, 2009. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) Hot on the heels of the news that Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” is the target of a copyright ...