Sam Cooke, his brother, his wife Barbara, and his manager were at the Holiday Inn on North Market in Shrevert when they were denied lodging based on the color of their skin even though the rooms ...

"At age 9, Sam knew he wasn't going to work for anyone," Marquis narrated before relating that Cooke found his way into a popular gospel group, the Soul Stirrers, in the early 1950s.

Sam Cooke’s anthem “A Change is Gonna Come” was released in 1964 as racial tensions were at an all time high — especially in the South.

DURHAM. Sam Cooke, a soul music icon who died 60 years ago this week, wrote the first draft of one of his most famous songs, “A Change Is Gonna Come,” while sitting on a bus in Durham.

Sam Cooke, his brother, his wife Barbara, and his manager were at the Holiday Inn on North Market in Shrevert when they were denied lodging based on the color of their skin even though the rooms ...