James Weldon Johnson’s poem “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” set to music by his brother John Rosamond, was first presented as a hymn, then adopted as a ...

Explore the significance of 'Lift Every Voice and Sing' at the 125th anniversary symposium, highlighting its cultural and ...

Lift Every Voice and Sing” is a hymn many African Americans of older generations just know. They’d sung it in church, learned ...

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.

Thus, he was pleasantly surprised to watch his alma mater’s Wind ensemble perform “Lift Every Voice and Sing” at his job on June 12, in what he called “a full circle moment” during the Museum of the ...

The Emancipation Proclamation became law in the United States. It declared that “all persons held as slaves … shall be … ...

They invited local dance troupes to perform and vocalists to sing “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” a James Weldon Johnson hymn that’s often called the Black National Anthem. “[Juneteenth ...

He has endowed his creatures with the capacity to create, and from this capacity has flowed the sweet songs of sorrow and joy that have allowed man to cope with his environment and many different ...

Green-Wood doesn’t have Teddy (he’s in Oyster Bay), but it’s got James Weldon Johnson, co-author of “Lift Every Voice and Sing”; James Harper, publisher; F. A. O. Schwarz, toy seller ...