Soundtrack for Ferguson: 10 Black Spirituals
Category: RELIGION
In August 1964, mourners sang "We Shall Overcome" at the memorial services and funerals for Andrew Goodman James Chaney and Michael Schwerner, three civil rights workers murdered in Mississippi. Fifty years later, it is still being sung at services and protests in Ferguson, Missouri.
By Robert F. Darden, ContributorProfessor of Journalism and New Media at Baylor University and..., 2014-08-22