“Lift every voice and sing
Till earth and heaven ring,
Ring with the harmonies of Liberty.
Let our rejoicing rise high as the listening skies;
Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.”

— James Weldon Johnson

Lift Every Voice and Sing, st. 1 (1900).

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writer and activist 1871–1938

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