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    NAACP began to promote the hymn as a "Negro national anthem" in 1917 (with the term "Black national anthem" similarly used in the present day). It has been...
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    Christian hymn published in 1779, written in 1772 by English Anglican clergyman and poet John Newton (1725–1807). It is an immensely popular hymn, particularly...
    63 KB (8,598 words) - 11:50, 16 June 2024
  • allowed the birth of the New Negro. The Negro spirituals revealed themselves; suppressed for generations under the stereotypes of Wesleyan hymn harmony...
    19 KB (2,338 words) - 17:30, 12 June 2024
  • dispute. After her termination, the troupe was renamed The Lincoln Players. When W. E. B. Du Bois saw a production of the Negro Players performing Ridgely...
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    the color of the noble and distinguished race to which we belong; green is the color of the luxuriant vegetation of our Motherland. —Universal Negro Catechism...
    20 KB (1,841 words) - 22:03, 21 July 2024
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    reference to the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared millions of slaves free in 1863, King said "one hundred years later, the Negro still is not...
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  • Somebody's Knocking at Your Door (category Songs based on the Bible)
    Songs of the Negro: As Sung on the Plantations. Hampton Institute. Reynolds, William Jensen (1990). Songs of Glory: Stories of 300 Great Hymns and Gospel...
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  • Gospel music (redirect from Gospel hymn)
    century. Hymns and sacred songs were often performed in a call and response fashion, heavily influenced by ancestral African music. Most of the churches...
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  • Spirituals (redirect from Negro spirituals)
    Spirituals (also known as Negro spirituals, African American spirituals, Black spirituals, or spiritual music) is a genre of Christian music that is associated...
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  • Oscar awarded: 2,170 Films with the most awards: Ben-Hur (1959), Titanic (1997), and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) each earned 11 Academy...
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    newspaper El Comercio calls "the hymn of Peruvian national football teams". In 2018, a FIFA-sanctioned worldwide online poll honoured the "fervent and dedicated...
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  • "When the Saints Go Marching In", often referred to as simply "The Saints", is a traditional black spiritual. It originated as a Christian hymn, but is...
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  • and "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" is heard intensifying in volume as the curtain closes. Dan, the cripple Chris,the younger brother Lucy, the sister...
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  • remarks. It includes only composers of significant fame and importance. The style of the composer's music is given where possible, bearing in mind that some...
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    James Baldwin (category Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters)
    More." Negro Digest. 1962. "The Negro's Role in American Culture: A Symposium." Negro Digest. 1963. "The Negro Writer in America: A Symposium." Negro Digest...
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    about the abolitionist John Brown. The song was popular in the Union during the American Civil War. The song arose out of the folk hymn tradition of the American...
    41 KB (5,258 words) - 19:08, 23 June 2024
  • 1925 book On the Trail of Negro Folk-songs that several people remembered hearing the song before the war. Scarborough's account of the song came from...
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    in 1866, published as a book in 1947) Is He Dead? (1898), play The Battle Hymn of the Republic, Updated (1901), satirical lyric King Leopold's Soliloquy...
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  • Black Gospel music (category History of Christianity in the United States)
    classified as Negro Spirituals (which shaped much of traditional Black gospel). Black Gospel music has been traditionally concerned with the African-American...
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    James Weldon Johnson (category Pages using embedded infobox templates with the title parameter)
    and has become known as the "Negro National Anthem", a title that the NAACP adopted and promoted. The song included the following lines: Lift ev'ry voice...
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