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"Lift Every Voice and Sing" is a hymn with lyrics by James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938) and set to music by his brother, J. Rosamond Johnson (1873–1954). Written from the context of African Americans in the late 19th century, the hymn is a prayer of thanksgiving to God as well as a prayer for faithfulness and freedom, with imagery that evokes the biblical Exodus from slavery to the freedom ...
Who Wrote ‘Lift Every Voice and Sing?’ James Weldon Johnson ... The melody is also a “word painting,” with the music matching the lyrics. “Lift every voice and sing” is sung on an ...
John Rosamond Johnson (August 11, 1873 – November 11, 1954; usually referred to as J. Rosamond Johnson) [1] was an American composer and singer during the Harlem Renaissance. Born in Jacksonville, Florida, he had much of his career in New York City. Johnson is noted as the composer of the tune for the hymn "Lift Every Voice and Sing".
"Lift Every Voice and Sing," often referred to as the Black national anthem, will be performed at the Super Bowl for the fourth time in a row, the latest legacy of the traditional song. Andra Day ...
Johnson was born in 1871 in Jacksonville, Florida, the son of James Johnson, a mulatto headwaiter and Helen Louise Dillet, a native of Nassau in the Bahamas.His maternal great-grandmother, Hester Argo, had escaped from Saint-Domingue (today Haiti) during the revolutionary upheaval in 1802, along with her three young children, including James' grandfather Stephen Dillet (1797–1880).
The song, widely regarded as the Black national anthem, features lyrics written by James Weldon Johnson in 1900, and music composed by his brother John Rosamond Johnson. Watch video of Day’s ...
"The lines of this song repay me in an elation, almost of exquisite anguish, whenever I hear them sung by Negro children," said the song's author.
James Weldon Johnson in 1932. James Weldon Johnson Community Library is named after James Weldon Johnson, native Floridian author, educator, civil rights activist, head of the NAACP. His song "Lift Every Voice and Sing" is considered by many to be the "Negro National Anthem." [4]