Preservation Thursday: Lift Every Voice and Sing!
March 27, 2012 |
Joyce Jefferson and Jerry Wilske have researched African American religious music from the time it was brought to the Americas to today. Their presentation will focus around the song brothers James Weldon and J. Rosamond Johnson wrote in 1900, “Lift Every Voice and Sing!” This song is still sung today with the same hope and fervor as it was four years after the 1896 Plessy vs. Ferguson Decision ushered in “separate-but-equal” Jim Crow-ism. Joyce and Jerry share the evolution of music, race relations and the hope for today as expressed in the lyrics of “Lift Every Voice and Sing!”The public forum will be held at the Homestake Adams Research and Cultural Center; 12:00 p.m. Admission by donation.
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| Location Information |
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Homestake Adams Research and Cultural Center (HARCC) |
150 Sherman Street
Deadwood, SD 57732 |
| Website:
www.adamsmuseumandhouse.org |
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| Contact Information |
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Rose Speirs |
| Email:
Rose@theadamsdeadwood.org |
| Phone:
605-578-1928 or 605-722-4800 |
| Fax:
605-578-1194 |
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