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Bill Vogt (10/31/2005 11:40:00 AM)
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James Weldon Johnson is one of the best poets in America's past.
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''It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive character.''
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James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938), U.S. author, poet. Black Manhattan, ch. 11 (1930).
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''Lift every voice and sing till earth and heaven ring,
ring with the harmonies of liberty.
Let our rejoicing rise high as the listening skies;
Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.''
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James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938), African-American hymn-writer. Published in The Hymnal (1982). "Lift every voice and sing," l. 1-4, Edward B. Marks M...
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