Lift Every Voice and Sing

The inspiring words and music of "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing", the song hailed as the African-American national anthem, are paired with the dramatic prints of an internationally renowned artist in this "treasure to be read, sung, shared and enjoyed among different generations and people of all races" (The Boston Globe). The inspiring words and music of "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing", the song hailed as the African-American national anthem, are paired with the dramatic…

Author: James Weldon Johnson · Original publisher: Walker & Company (1993) (later/standard edition)

Tier 3 — Partial text + link. The public-domain portions of this book are hosted on this page: poems drawn from Fifty Years and Other Poems (1917) and God's Trombones (1927) are public domain, as is the title poem of Saint Peter Relates an Incident (1930); any poem first published in the 1935 Saint Peter collection is not. (Our catalog record is a later edition.) The full text of the qualifying portions is held in fulltexts/ as `3254-lift-every-voice-and-sing-selected-poems-of-jame.txt` (see fulltexts/INDEX.md).