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(0)James Weldon Johnson
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Just in time for the 120th anniversary of the song “Lift Every Voice and Sing”–this stirring book celebrates the Black National Anthem and how it inspired five generations of a family… In Jacksonville, Florida, two brothers, one of them the principal of a segregated, all-black school, wrote the song “Lift Every Voice and Sing” so his students could sing it for a tribute to Abraham Lincoln’s birthday in 1900. From that moment on, the...
Series
Library of America volume 115-116
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
©2000.
Language
English
Description
Contains over 1500 poems by more than 200 well-known American poets, including Langston Hughes, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Robert Frost, and Wallace Stevens.