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24 Anthems of Black Pride and Protest
Jackson 5
Aaliyah
BB King
Michael Jackson
Chris Brown
Sam Cook
John & James J.
Stevie Wonder
Unknown Artist
Marvin Gaye
Ray Charles
Louis Armstrong
Tupac
Ella Fitzgerald
Duke Ellington
Aretha Franklin
Prince
Janet Jackson
Billie Holliday
Misty Copeland
Marie S. Williams
James Brown
Beyonce'
Whitney Houston
Michael Jackson
Ray Charles
Aretha Franlkin
Billie Holliday
Beyonce
Whitney Houston
Jackson 5
Chris Brown
Unknown Artist
Swing Low Sweet Chariot
Throughout the antebellum South, spirituals became a vital form of folksong among enslaved people. Some were also used as a form of coded communication to plan escape from slavery. As abolitionist Harriet Tubman guided Black people to freedom along the Underground Railroad, she sang certain spirituals to signal it was time for escape. Among Tubman’s favorites was reportedly “Swing The melody was a signal that the time to escape had arrived. The “sweet chariot” represented the Underground Railroad, swinging low—to the South—to carry them to the North.
Tupac Shakur
Prince
Marie Selkia Williams
In 1878 soprano Marie Selika Williams, known as the “queen of staccato,” became the first black artist to perform at the White House.efactor.
Aaliyah
Misty Copeland
Ella Fitzgerald
Marvin Gaye
Sam Cook
Duke Ellington
Janet Jackson
Bob Marley
John & James Johnson
Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing” was originally written as a poem by educator James Weldon Johnson, with accompanying music created by his brother, John Rosamond Johnson. The lyrics were recited by 500 schoolchildren on February 12, 1900, in Jacksonville, Florida to celebrate President Abraham Lincoln’s birthday. While composing, James Johnson struggled to write lyrics that spoke to the traumatic yet triumphant lives of his ancestors.