Charles Albert Tindley
American musical composer
Charles Albert Tindley was an American Methodist minister and gospel music composer. His composition "I'll Overcome Someday" is credited as the basis for the U.S. Civil Rights anthem "We Shall Overcome". Wikipedia
Born: July 7, 1851, Berlin, MD
Died: July 26, 1933 (age 82 years), Philadelphia, PA
Resting place: Eden Cemetery, Collingdale, Pennsylvania, U.S
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CHARLES ALBERT TINDLEY born July 7, 1851, Berlin, Maryland died July 26, 1933, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania buried Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
May 25, 2023 · Born in Berlin, Maryland in 1856, Reverend Charles Albert Tindley was a renowned Methodist minister and gospel music composer who wrote many ...
Tindley wrote over 40 hymns in his lifetime. His “I'll Overcome Some Day” was the basis for the American civil rights anthem “We Shall Overcome,” popularized in ...
Told in lilting verse with snippets of spirituals and Tindley's own hymns woven throughout, Carole Boston Weatherford's lyrical words and Bryan Collier's ...
Charles Albert Tindley was born in Berlin, Maryland on July 7, 1851. In his determination to educate himself for the ministry, he overcame slavery and poverty.