Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing–Malachi Thompson and Africa Brass, off Elephantine Island CD.
People, places, events used in video:
Malachi Thompson
James Weldon Johnson
John Rosamond Johnson
Frederick Douglas
Abraham Lincoln
Sojourner Truth
Harriet Tubman
John Brown
Harper’s Ferry
South Carolina 1st Union Volunteers
Massachusetts 54th
Ida Wells
W. E. B. DuBois
Angelo Herndon
Rosa Parks
Topeka Kansas
Little Rock, Arkansas
Sanitation workers strike, Memphis, Tennessee
Emmett Till and Mamie Till Mobley
Greensboro, NC Sit-In
Freedom Rides
MIchael Schwerner, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman
Birmingham Church Bombing
Deacons for Defense
Robert F. Williams and Mabel Williams
Harlem Rally
Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali and daughters
Huey Newton and Bobby Seale
Fred Hampton
John Carlos, Tommie Smith, Peter Norman
Jena, Louisiana
Oscar Grant protest, Oakland, California
UAW strike
Smithfield union organizing support rally Tar Heel, North Carolina
“Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing, often called “The Black 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 1899. It was first performed in public in the Johnsons’ hometown of Jacksonville, Florida as part of a celebration of Lincoln’s Birthday on February 12, 1900 by a choir of 500 schoolchildren at the segregated Stanton School, where James Weldon Johnson was principal.”
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