`` Lift Every Voice and Sing '' was written by James Weldon Johnson in 1900 . ` I love the song , '' said Askew , an associate professor of English at Clark Atlanta University , a historically black college . It is a song that has been sung for over 100 years, but it's not the only one to have this title. is racially divisive and separatist .
`` Lift Every Voice and Sing '' was written by James Weldon Johnson in 1900 . It is a song that has been sung for over 100 years, but it's not the only one to have this title. is racially divisive and separatist .