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Subject: 0212 - Today in Black History - February 12
1900 - For a Lincoln birthday celebration, James Weldon Johnson writes
the lyrics for "Lift Every Voice and Sing." With music by his
brother, J. Rosamond, the song is first sung by 500 children
in Jacksonville, Florida. It will become known as the "Negro
National Anthem."
1983 - Eubie Blake joins the ancestors at the age of 100 in Brooklyn,
New York. Blake was one of the last ragtime pianists and
composers whose most famous songs included "I'm Just Wild About
Harry." With Noble Sissle, Blake was the composer of the first
all-African American Broadway musical, "Shuffle Along," which
opened on Broadway in 1921.
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