“Lift Every Voice and Sing" was written at a pivotal time, when Jim Crow was replacing slavery and African-Americans were searching for an identity. Author and activist James Weldon Johnson wrote the words as a poem, which his brother John then set to music.”
Lyrics.
Lift ev'ry voice and sing
'Til earth and heaven ring
Ring with the harmonies of Liberty
Let our rejoicing rise
High as the list'ning skies
Let it resound loud as the rolling sea
Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us
Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us
Facing the rising sun of our new day begun
Let us march on 'til victory is won
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Footsteps to Freedom tour 4 (2019)
Footsteps to Freedom (Tour 3)
July 9 - 16th.
Footsteps to Freedom 2019 tour 2. June 18 - June 25
Footsteps to Freedom tour 4 (2018)
Footsteps to Freedom (Tour 3) 2018
Footsteps to Freedom (Tour 2) 2018
Footsteps to Freedom Tour 1 2018.
Educators from all three (3) tours this summer (2017) experienced walking the same trail as freedom seekers climbing Rankin Hill. The Underground Railroad is "People Helping People" and blacks & whites came together to fight unjust laws that affected enslaved people. Post your experience climbing Rankin Hill..... #footstepstofreedom