THE NEGRO NATIONAL ANTHEM / CALIFORNIA LABOR SCHOOL CHORUS Almanac Singers
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Template By Froo! TEST pressing DICK & DEE DEE Turn Around TEST PRESSING CALIFORNIA LABOR SCHOOL CHORUS
(California Labor School was Maya Angelou's high school.)
THE NEGRO NATIONAL ANTHEM
Record number CLS-101
Side A: The Negro National Anthem
Side B: No More Auction Block and Jim Crow -Almanac Singers writers
CONDITION: VG+ very clean
FROM MAYA ANGELOUS BIOGRAPHY
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
"Henry Reed’s valedictory speech dispels the dismal atmosphere, but Maya reacts with cynicism and pessimism. Henry continues to speak with strength and clarity, and afterward he turns his back to the audience and addresses the graduating class sitting on the stage. He leads them in “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing,” a song known popularly as the Negro National Anthem. Maya listens to the words for the very first time, drops her cynical attitude, and takes pride in her black community.Lift Every Voice and Sing — often called “The Negro National Anthem” — was written as a poem by James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) and then set to music by his brother John Rosamond Johnson (1873-1954) in 1900. It was first performed in public in the Johnsons’ hometown of Jacksonville, Florida as part of a celebration of Lincoln‘s Birthday on February 12, 1900by a choir of 500 schoolchildren at the segregated Stanton School, where James Weldon Johnson was principal.
Singing this song quickly became a way for African Americans to demonstrate their patriotism and hope for the future. In calling for earth and heaven to “ring with the harmonies of Liberty,” they could speak out subtly against racism and Jim Crow laws — and especially the huge number of lynchings accompanying the rise of the Ku Klux Klan at the turn of the century. In 1919, the NAACP adopted the song as “The Negro National Anthem.” By the 1920s, copies of “Lift Every Voice and Sing” could be found in black churches across the country, often pasted into the hymnals.Lift every voice and sing, till earth and Heaven ring,
Ring with the harmonies of liberty;
Let our rejoicing rise, high as the listening 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 till victory is won.
Stony the road we trod, bitter the chastening 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 gleam of our bright star is cast.
God of our weary years, God of our silent tears,
Thou Who hast brought us thus far on the way;
Thou Who hast by Thy might, led us into the light,
Keep us forever in the path, we pray.
Lest our feet stray from the places, our God, where we met Thee.
Lest our hearts, drunk with the wine of the world, we forget Thee.
Shadowed beneath Thy hand, may we forever stand,
True to our God, true to our native land.
condition
GRADING
NM Near Mint. Record and cover appear virtually unmarked. Cover still in shrink.
VG++ A hair under near mint may have only a couple of very insignificant surface only lines that should not affect sound.
Cover out of shrink otherwise close to perfect.
VG+ A cared for record. Some surface lines. May still play perfectly or will have very slight audible imperfections.
Some normal cover wear.
VG… There will be visual imperfections and some audible ones . May be a number of surface only lines or there might be
a small scratch but not one that repeats, Cover will be worn or have some kind of defect. In this condition flaws will be
pictured or noted.
VG- .. Usually the lowest rating I will list an LP at. Same as VG but defects are more pronounced. May have more than 1
scratch but still not one that repeats. This record will still be enjoyable but there will almost definitely be background sound.
I have sold many rare 78s and older acetates at this grade and buyers have almost always been quite pleased. , In this
condition flaws will be pictured or noted.
G+: There may be skips or some other major defect or the background sound is so loud that listening might be a chore.
Flaws will be stated, Covers will have major defects that need to be stated.
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