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City breaks ground on Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing Park
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Community leaders broke ground Wednesday on a new city park in the historic LaVilla neighborhood. It’s located on property that was the birthplace of brothers James Weldon Johnson and John Rosamond Johnson, authors of “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing,” which is considered the Black national anthem.
Park renderings show the park (see below), on Lee Street two blocks north of the Prime Osborn Convention Center, will eventually have gardens, statues and markers. Construction is expected to begin this spring.
“There is a rich, really rich, African-American history from out of Jacksonville that, frankly, just hasn’t been honored and recognized,” Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry said. “So, this is honoring and recognizing it. But it’s also teaching all of the children of our city about our past and, also, as we learn from our past, I think we can be better people.�