Covers:

1929:

Charley Patton [as Prayer Of Death Pt 2]

1937:

Four Blind Boys

1939:

Heavenly Gospel Singers [for Bluebird]

1939:

Freedom Singers

1950:

Famous Blue Jay Gospel Singers

1956:

Odetta [as Buked And Scorned]

1959:

Harry Belafonte [idem]

1961:

Staple Singers [as I've Been Scorned]

1963:

Blind Boys Of Alabama [as I've Been Buked]

1963:

Pete Seeger [as We'll Never Turn Back]

1963:

Mahalia Jackson [during the March on Washington, D.C. best remembered by Martin Luther King Jr. addressing his Mountaintop speech]

1968:

Barbara Dane & The Chambers Brothers [idem; for Folkways]

2007:

Mavis Staples [idem, crediting Freedom Singer Bertha Gober; she wrote it in 1961 after being expelled from the Albany, GA State College for using the 'whites only' toilets]

2009:

Mystix [as I've Been Scorned]

2018:

Marc Ribot [as We'll Never Turn Back]