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Okay, since it is still February and the beginning of the awesome month of African-American Recognization (my Palin moment), I wanted to recognize "Lift Every Voice and Sing" which was written as a poem by James Weldon Johnson and then set to music by his brother John Rosamond Johnson.JAMES WELDON JOHNSON born June 17, 1871 in Jacksonville, Florida was a leading American author, poet, early civil rights activist, and prominent figure in the Harlem Renaissance. In 1896, he graduated from Atlanta University, now known as Clark Atlanta University. He was the first African American accepted to the Florida bar. He served in several public capacities, including as consul to Venezuela and Nicaragua and as principal of Stanton, a school for African American students in and in 1934 a visiting professor at New York Univ. He helped found and was secretary (1916-30) of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. His novel Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man (1912), published anonymously, caused a great stir and was republished under his name in 1927.
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