Lift Every Voice And Sing”was a short poem the was very known to others but after 1905 it turned to a very known song that was performed and hosted at Stanton School sung by over 500 children. These children was singing to Abraham Lincoln on his birthday February 12, 1900. James Weldon Johnson was the maker of the poem and also the school's principal. Why is this poem/song such a big hit back then? This poem was such a big hit because it talked about never stop fighting and never giving up.The poem may be referring to the jim crow laws because of the struggle they had to always had to fight and never give up. The problem that they were having with the Jim Crow laws is that they couldn't do the same stuff that the whites such as eating in the …show more content…
The troops that the President had called were the 101st Airborne Divison of the United States Army. This army was there at all times they escorted them everywhere they went from class to class. One year later the schools in Little Rock were closed down by Arkansas Governor, he did that because he thought that it would be better to have no school than have schools with different race and religion. The families that went to that school blamed it on the little rock nine,And it caused more trouble It all started on August 27, 1963 the sun was blazing hot, Martin Luther King, Jr marched and gave the famous “I Have A Dream” Speech.The speech was talking about freedom and jobs for the african americans. The speech was explaining the life that they have over the whites and how if it keeps going in the same pace as it is now it would put them in bad places.There was over 190,000 African Americans who attended it and 60,000 White people who attended it (Estimated).People came from all over the world to watch and listen to it. Although some people couldn't listen to it because Martin Luther King Jr spent money on expensive speakers but someone sabotaged the