...Liberty; Let our rejoicing rise High as the list'ning skies, Let it resound loud as the rolling sea. Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has...new day begun, Let us march on till victory is won. LESLIE PINCKNEY HILL Leslie Pinckney Hill, born in Lynchburg, Virginia, May 14, 1880, attended a high...

...and South America. When we do that, we will be able to lift our voices with new meaning and sing — sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us. We will be able to sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us, and facing the rising...

...discusses the evolution of the lyrics, no one was better suited than Robeson to do justice to such lines as "Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past...song full of the hope that the present has brought us."80 In a breakthrough of enormous significance, the African ancestral ring is related, though imperfectly,...

...references to America's hostile social landscape. In the first verse Johnson uses the darkness motif: "Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us"; and the penultimate line of this verse contains a reference to temporal movement: "Facing the rising...

...ed. James M. Washington (New York: Harper & Row, 1986), 275. Let it resound loud as the rolling sea. Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has...new day begun, Let 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...

...and Sing," the hymn's cadences evoking a sense of shared commitment to the fight for racial equality: Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has...new day begun Let us march on till victory is won. State branch organizer Leila Bell Michael then introduced the keynote speaker, NAACP director of branches...

...churches everywhere: Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us, Sing a song full of hope that the present has brought us, Facing the rising...our new day begun, Let us march on till victory is won.15 The mood of the late twenties gradually bent black critics and fans toward the Hollywood product...

...us, but not in the same league with the Johnson Brothers' soul-ensnaring bombast: Sing a song full of faith that the dark past has taught us; Sing a song full of hope that the present has brought us, Facing the rising sun of our new day begun, Let us march on till...

...possible when Black and Red traditions of resistance come together: Sing a song full of the strife that the dark past has taught us. Sing a song full of the hope Communism has brought us. Facing a Red! Red! Sun of a new day begun Let us fight on till victory is...

...Heaven ring Ring with the harmony of liberty Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past as brought us, Sing a song full of the hope that the present has taught us Facing the rising sun of our new day begun Let us march on till victory is won God of our...