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We Shall Overcome
The roots of "We Shall Overcome" are unclear and many. It was long thought to descend from "I'll Overcome Some Day", a hymn by the Reverend Charles Albert Tindley of Philadelphia, a Methodist Episcopal minister, first published in 1901, written in an idiom rooted in African American folk traditions for congregations many of whom had been freed from slavery a generation before.
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- The Epoch Institute. (2026). We Shall Overcome. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/we-shall-overcome
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- The Epoch Institute. “We Shall Overcome.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. 2026. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/we-shall-overcome.
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