'Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing' Metamorphosis

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Rover Rover found this 7/2/2008 on www.luoamerican.com [flag]
Question: when did Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing--written in the 1930s by Harlem Renaissance men James Weldon Johnson and his brother John Rosamond Johnson in 1900 and sung at functions far and wide since then--magically become a "Leftist patriotism song"... [link]

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