June 17: James Weldon Johnson


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June 17

James Weldon Johnson, who wrote the “Negro National Anthem” (“Lift Every Voice and Sing”) with his brother J. Rosamund, and who led the fight for the Anti-Lynching Law of 1921, was born on this date in 1871.

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