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Carl Van Vechten, Library of Congress // Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” the so-called Black national anthem, was written by 20th-century novelist/poet/songwriter James Weldon Johnson as a rallying cry for perseverance and social justice. Though it’s been performed publicly for nearly 100 years, there’s probably a lot you still don’t know about this iconic song though if a congressman has his way, you’ll be hearing it alongside “The Star-Spangled Banner” in the near future. 1. “Lift Every Voice and Sing” was originally written as a poem. The song (the lyrics to which you can read here) was originally written by James Weldon Johnson as a poem in 1899, when the KKK was riding hard and Black people were being lynched and terrorized by Jim Crow laws in the American South. Johnson’s brother, John Rosamond Johnson, is the one who put the verses to music. The anthem was first sung by 500 African American schoolchildren in Ja ....
James Weldon Johnson (1876–1938), who wrote “Lift Ev’ry Voice” with his brother, composer J. Rosamond Johnson, was a poet, novelist, Broadway lyricist, civil rights activist, and diplomat. Johnson expressed a diverse range of views about different subjects, including the affinities between African-Americans and Jews. As Leonard Dinnerstein’s “Antisemitism in America” notes, in a 1918 essay published in The New York Age, an African American newspaper, Johnson wrote of “the two million Jews [who] have a controlling interest in the finances of the nation.” Yet he nevertheless urged fellow blacks to “draw encouragement and hope from the experiences of modern Jews.” ....
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James Weldon Johnson composed Lift Every Voice and Sing, which became known as the Black national anthem. Author: Kailey Tracy Updated: 6:38 PM EST February 20, 2021 JACKSONVILLE, Fla The beat of several drums echoed from the newly renamed James Weldon Johnson Park in downtown Jacksonville Saturday afternoon. The park was originally named after Civil War veteran, Charles Hemming, when he donated a Confederate monument to Jacksonville. The Confederate soldier statue that stood on top of the monument was removed last summer. Organizers of Saturday s event, which included food music and dancing, called it Duval Legacies. It s the first of the series celebrating Black history in Duval, they said, starting with Johnson during Black History Month. Johnson composed Lift Every Voice and Sing, which became known as the Black national anthem. ....
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