More info about Black National Anthem

"Lift Every Voice and Sing" — often called "The Negro National Hymn" or "The Negro National Anthem" — was written as a poem by James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938) and then set to music by his brother John Rosamond Johnson (1873–1954) in 1900.

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