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Lift Every Voice and Sing Technique
Great lyrics move us like the world's best poems. Take a close-up look at the art.
Music
While the message of “Lift every Voice and Sing” has drawn most attention to the song’s lyricist, James Weldon Johnson, music composer J. Rosamond Johnson is also an important figure in Ameri...
Setting
James Weldon Johnson and J. Rosamond Johnson wrote “Lift Every Voice and Sing” while teaching in Jacksonville, Florida, but the song’s more important setting is historical, rather than geogra...
