“Lift Every Voice and Sing” was written by James Weldon Johnson in 1900 as a poem honoring Booker T. Washington. The poem was later put to music by his brother, and by 1919 the song was adopted and promoted by the NAACP as the Black National Anthem. The piece's three stanzas describe the African American community's continued strength through enslavement, emancipation, and the rise of segregation and Jim Crow that forced them into second-class citizenship. This was important in the early 1900s,
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