In 1798 the tune became “Adams and Liberty,” written by Thomas Paine (later called Robert Treat Paine, Jr., and not the same person as the author of Common Sense, with whom he is sometimes confused) to celebrate and rally support for the nation’s second president, John Adams. This v...
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Lift Every Voice and Sing, hymn composed by the American writer and activist James Weldon Johnson and his younger brother, John Rosamond Johnson. Since it was first performed in 1900, it has come to be widely regarded as the Black American national anthem. Drawing on the tradition of Black ...
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