Kim Ruehl's 'A Singing Army' Shines a Light on Zilphia Horton
Tweet Share You might not know Zilphia Horton by name, but if youâve attended a protest in the past half-century, youâve probably sung her work. Horton arranged songs like âWe Shall Overcome,â âWe Shall Not Be Movedâ and âThis Little Light of Mineâ for group singing, which helped them become anthems of the civil rights and labor movements. As the music and drama director at the Highlander Folk School in Monteagle, Tenn., she drew on the communal power of performing arts to help organize community activists, and collaborated with Rosa Par...
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