<em>Lift Every Voice and Sing is a poem written by James Weldon Johnson to celebrate Abraham Lincoln's birthda</em>y, This poem was set to music and became the National African American Anthem. It talks about the struggle of African American people to achieve their freedom, the first stanza of the poem encourages people to join together and sing in honor of liberty, the second stanza then recalls the hard times African American people had to go through, and the final stanza states how faith in God kept people going during the hard times, and asks God to continue guiding their path.
