A historic Black building in Odessa, Zoar Church, was recently awarded a $250,000 grant to aid restoration efforts.
One of the church's early members was Charles Albert Tindley ... “I’ll Overcome Someday,” largely credited as the basis for the U.S. civil rights anthem “We Shall Overcome.” ...
and Charles Albert Tindley spent time there. He wrote the hymn “I Shall Overcome Some Day.” A modified version of the hymn became an anthem of the Civil Rights Movement, “We Shall Overcome.” ...
And around 1960 his modified version of the old Methodist hymn, “I’ll Overcome Some Day” — written by the Rev. Charles Tindley of Philadelphia in 1903 — emerged as “We Shall Overcome,” the great civil ...
Because it’s not just Negroes, but really it’s all of us who must overcome the crippling legacy of bigotry and injustice. And we shall overcome.” The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. reportedly ...
“The world is being inundated by the brazen conviction that power can do anything, justice nothing,” the man who had spent ...
We could eliminate emissions a lot quicker, he argues, if that electricity went directly to heat pumps instead. “This is because you end up with only two-thirds of the energy in the hydrogen ...