Dunbar High School Scrapbook - Page 17d

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Song
Lift Every Voice and Sing

Lift ev'ry voice and sing
Till 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 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 till victory is won.

Stony the road we trod,
Bitter the chast'ning rod,
Felt in the days when hope unborn had died;
Yet with a steady beat,
Have not our weary feet,
Come to the place for which our fathers sighed?
We have come over a way that with tears has been watered,
We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered
Out from the gloomy past,
Till now we stand at last
Where the white glem of our bright star is cast.
By James Weldon Johnson

Special thanks to:
NAACP
Red Cross

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