Before revision: Although the song is commonly thought to have descended from "I'll Overcome Some Day," a hymn by Charles Albert Tindley that was first published in 1901, this theory was debunked in 2016 by the evidence presented by attorneys for the We Shall Overcome Foundation in the class-action lawsuit We Shall Overcome Foundation vs
After revision: .Although the song is commonly thought to have descended from "I'll Overcome Some Day," a hymn by Charles Albert Tindley that was first published in 1901, this theory was debunked in 2016 by the evidence presented by attorneys for the We Shall Overcome Foundation in the class-action lawsuit We Shall Overcome Foundation vs