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‘Lift Every Voice and Sing’: A Musical Monument to Freedom
From its beginnings as a birthday tribute to Abraham Lincoln sung in 1900 by 500 black schoolchildren in segregated Florida, “Lift Every Voice and Sing ... James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938 ...
“Lift Every Voice and Sing” should be America’s second national anthem. Here’s why | Opinion
The Black National Anthem – “Lift Every Voice and Sing” – is a hymn written as a poem by then NAACP leader James Weldon ...