Sonny Gibson Do You Know Series 3 James Weldon Johnson
“Lift Every Voice and Sing” was publicly performed first as a poem as part of a celebration of Lincoln’s Birthday on February 12, 1900, by 500 school children at the…
James Weldon Johnson
Sonny Gibson Do You Know Series 2 Paul Laurence Dunbar
Paul Laurence Dunbar praised as “the first American Negro poet of real literary distinction,” by James Weldon Johnson, and the “poet laureate of the Negro Race” by Mary Church Terrrel,…