About Charles Albert Tindley
Charles Albert Tindley was an African-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". Another of his hymns is "Take Your Burden to the Lord and Leave It There" (1916), as well as "What Are They Doing in Heaven?" (1901). Tindley was awarded a Doctor of Divinity degree by Bennett College and Morgan College in Baltimore, Maryland. Often referred to as "The Prince of Preachers", he educated himself, became a minister and founded one of the largest Methodist congregations serving the African-American community on the East Coast of the United States. Charles later became the sexton, a job with no salary. Tindley then became the pastor of the same church at which he had been a janitor.
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