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Lift Every Voice(The Negro National Anthem)By James Weldon JohnsonLift every voice and singTill earth and heaven ring,Ring with the harmonies of Liberty;Let our rejoicing riseHigh as the listening skies,Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us,Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us,Facing the rising sun of our new day begunLet us march on till victory is won.Stony the road we trod,Bitter the chastening rod,Felt in the days when hope unborn had died;Yet with a steady beat,Have not our weary feetCome to the place for which our fathers sighed?We have come over a way that with tears have been watered,We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered,Out from the gloomy past,Till now we stand at lastWhere the white gleam of our bright star is cast.God of our weary years,God of our silent tears,Thou who has brought us thus far on the way;Thou who has by Thy mightLed us into the light,Keep us forever in the path, we pray.Lest our feet stray from the places, Our God, where we met Thee;Lest, our hearts drunk with the wine of the world, we forget Thee;Shadowed beneath Thy hand,May we forever stand.True to our GOD; True to our native land.The Afro-American Historical Association of the Niagara Frontier15th AnnualMartin Luther King, Jr.Programcenter85725Sunday, January 19, 2020, 3:00 P.MThe Buffalo History MuseumEvent Co-SponsorsAlpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Rho Lambda Chapter of BuffaloOmega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. Phi Omega Chapter Gretchen Sullivan Sorin is Director and Distinguished Service Professor at the Cooperstown Graduate Program, a training program for museum curators, educators, and directors that is part of the State University of New York College at Oneonta. She is also a Fellow of the New York Academy of historians. 95251460500Dr. Sorin holds an M.A. in Museum Studies from the Cooperstown Graduate Program and a Ph.D. from the University at Albany in American history. Dr. Sorin has more than thirty years of experience in the museum profession. She has served as a guest curator for many exhibitions, including In the Spirit of Martin: The Living Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. for the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service. Dr. Sorin has served on the boards or governing councils of numerous organizations, including The New York Folklore Society. She is currently the President of the Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums.Dr. Sorin is co-writer and senior historian working with Steeplechase Films and filmmaker Ric Burns on a documentary film to be shown on PBS entitled, Driving While Black: African Americans on the Road in the Era of Jim Crow. She is the author of the soon to be released book which is the basis of the documentary, Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights. The book will be published by W.W. Norton in February 2020.PROGRAMMusical InterludeDavid James Davis Lift Every Voice and Sing Invocation Kyle MannWelcome Lillian S. Williams, PhD Introduction of Presenter W. Charles BrandyPresentation Dr. Gretchen Sullivan Sorin Questions and AnswersBenedictionDarnell Cummings206375015875 Previous Speakers: Leo Richardson, PhD (2007) Jacqueline McLeod, PhD (2008) Reggie Witherspoon (2009) Jason Young, PhD (2010)Harry Bradshaw Matthews (2011)Karla Clapp Holloway, PhD (2012) Teresa A. Miller, PhD (2013)Black Calvary Buffalo Soldiers (2014)Juneteenth (2015)LaKisha Simmons, PhD (2016)Danielle Holley-Walker (2017)Rick Fleming (2018)Steve Peraza, PhD (2019) ................
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