Free Download Julian Bond, Sondra Kathryn Wilson, "Lift Every Voice and Sing: A Celebration of the Negro National Anthem; 100 Years, 100 Voices"
English | 2000 | pages: 275 | ISBN: 0679463151, 0375506462 | EPUB | 7,5 mb
"A group of young men in Jacksonville, Florida, arranged to celebrate Lincoln’s birthday in 1900. My brother, J. Rosamond Johnson, and I decided to write a song to be sung at the exercise. I wrote the words and he wrote the music. Our New York ✅
Publisher, Edward B. Marks, made mimeographed copies for us and the song was taught to and sung by a chorus of five hundred colored school children.
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