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And when this happens, and when we allow freedom ring -- when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children -- black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics -- will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: "Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"

“It wasn’t a Negro spiritual that got my people out of chains. It was war,” Tay Anderson, a Denver Public School Board member in his 20s, yelled into a megaphone at a rally in Denver on Friday evening.

“And then he brought out a gospel choir and started quoting a black Negro spiritual.”

And all of that life is in their music, which, thanks to Dorsey’s innovation, weds the plaint, woe and human upside of the Negro spiritual with the rhythm of the blues.

Sometimes, Lewis fears that “we have lost our way,” and turns to a Negro spiritual sung during the movement: “I’m so glad trouble don’t last always.”