“Lift Every Voice and Sing.”
“Lift Every Voice and Sing” was written as a poem by James Weldon Johnson in 1900. Johnson, an educator, lawyer, diplomat, and civil rights activist, wrote the poem to commemorate Abraham Lincoln’s birthday. His brother, John Rosamond Johnson, set the poem to music, and the song was first performed by a choir of 500 African […]
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