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Lift Every Voice and Sing

SKU: 9781681199559
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  • Author:
    JOHNSON James Weldon Text by
  • ISBN:
    9781681199559
  • Publication Date:
    January 2019
  • Edition:
    1
  • Pages:
  • Binding:
    Hardback
  • Publisher:
    Bloomsbury
  • Country of Publication:
Lift Every Voice and Sing
Lift Every Voice and Sing

Lift Every Voice and Sing

SKU: 9781681199559
Regular price $26.99
Unit price
per
  • Author:
    JOHNSON James Weldon Text by
  • ISBN:
    9781681199559
  • Publication Date:
    January 2019
  • Edition:
    1
  • Pages:
  • Binding:
    Hardback
  • Publisher:
    Bloomsbury
  • Country of Publication:

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A moving history of the African-American struggle for equality, "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing" was written for schoolchildren to sing at an Abraham Lincoln birthday celebration in 1900 and was named the official African-American anthem in 1949. With linocuts of renowned Harlem Renaissance artist Elizabeth Catlett, this text and art pairing captures the achievements, spirit, joy, and struggle of the African-American experience. This reissue will feature new backmatter contextualizing the history of the song as well as the significance of Ms. Catlett as an artist.
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  • A moving history of the African-American struggle for equality, "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing" was written for schoolchildren to sing at an Abraham Lincoln birthday celebration in 1900 and was named the official African-American anthem in 1949. With linocuts of renowned Harlem Renaissance artist Elizabeth Catlett, this text and art pairing captures the achievements, spirit, joy, and struggle of the African-American experience. This reissue will feature new backmatter contextualizing the history of the song as well as the significance of Ms. Catlett as an artist.
A moving history of the African-American struggle for equality, "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing" was written for schoolchildren to sing at an Abraham Lincoln birthday celebration in 1900 and was named the official African-American anthem in 1949. With linocuts of renowned Harlem Renaissance artist Elizabeth Catlett, this text and art pairing captures the achievements, spirit, joy, and struggle of the African-American experience. This reissue will feature new backmatter contextualizing the history of the song as well as the significance of Ms. Catlett as an artist.