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‘Lift Every Voice and Sing,' the unofficial Black national anthem, celebrates 125 years
It is featured in over 40 different Christian hymnals and sung in churches all across America, not just during Black History ...
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The lyrics to ‘Lift Every Voice and Sing,’ and James Weldon Johnson on how it came to be
The school children of Jacksonville kept singing it; they went off to other schools and sang it; they became teachers and taught it to other children.