The Anthem of Hope

This art print depicts Sam Cooke mid-song, head tilted back, set against a red-toned collage of Civil Rights Movement protest imagery, including archival marchers and signs reading "March for Jobs Now" and "End Segregated Rules in Public Schools."

The piece is named for Cooke's "A Change Is Gonna Come," written in 1963 and released as a single in December 1964. Cooke was inspired in part by an incident in which he and his group were turned away from a whites-only motel in Louisiana, as well as by Bob Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind." The song became an anthem of the Civil Rights Movement and is widely regarded as one of the most significant compositions in American music history, later added to the Library of Congress's National Recording Registry.

Available in a 16x16 size, framed in black or unframed.