Set to a melancholy arrangement of strings and horns, “A Change Is Gonna Come” became an anthem of the Civil Rights Movement ...

Sam Cooke wrote “A Change is ... adding the lyrics to the city’s downtown civil rights mural. Mayor Pro Tem Mark-Anthony Middleton said city leaders are readying a proclamation that will ...

Or that the FBI, having kept Cooke under surveillance due to his prominent and powerful position in the civil rights movement ... “When Sam and the Soul Stirrers came to [a] church, you would ...

The song became an anthem for the Civil Rights Movement, and is considered one of Cooke's greatest compositions.

In December 1964, the release of a particularly iconic Sam Cooke song would change the Civil Rights movement and the protest music that served as its backdrop forever—a monumental cultural and ...

SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) — Sam Cooke has been called the most famous soul singer in history. During the Civil Rights ...

Samuel Cook (January 22, 1931 – December 11, 1964), known professionally as Sam Cooke ... part in the American Civil Rights Movement. On December 11, 1964, Cooke was shot dead by the manager ...

The death of musician Sam Cooke was certainly not an ... detailing the the role that Cooke and other musicians had in the ...

Sam Cooke's iconic song 'A Change is Gonna Come' became an anthem for the Civil Rights Movement ... under the headline 'Negro Band Leader Held in Shreveport,' which angered Black Americans.