The original Redskins fight song was "Fight for old Dixie!" When George Preston Marshall ... would lead to greater male attendance. Deciding music might do the trick, Marshall plopped a dance ...

The parts were separate, but the song itself was the same ... “Yankee Doodle,” the de facto anthem for the Union, and “Dixie,” for the Confederacy. “Time is short,” Atkins begins.

Protest songs have been part of American history for centuries — from “Yankee Doodle” during the Revolutionary War period to “Okie from Muskogee” by Merle Haggard to Kendrick Lamar’s “Alright” — and ...