Did You Know? - The "Black National Anthem" That Wasn't: The Untold Story of “Lift Every Voice and Sing”
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What if one of America’s most familiar songs has a history very different from the way it is commonly presented today?
In this Voices Of Life: Did You Know? episode, Pastor David examines the remarkable history of“Lift Every Voice and Sing”, beginning not with modern politics, the Civil Rights Movement, or the National Football League, but with Jacksonville, Florida, in 1900.
The surviving historical record preserved by Yale University Library identifies the original occasion clearly…
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