#925 + 155th anniversary of JUNETEENTH/ Freedom Day/ Jubilee Day/ Liberation Day + “Lift Ev’ry Voice & Sing” + “I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free” + Within Our Gates

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THE JUNETEENTH FLAG

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155th

anniversary

of

JUNETEENTH

Freedom Day

Jubilee Day

Liberation Day

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juneteenth

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Lift Ev’ry Voice & Sing / Star Spangled Banner

– Black National Anthem –

rene marie

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In 2008

Rene Marie

was asked to sing the

National Anthem

at

Denver’s State of the City address.

The outcome was Rene singing

“Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing“,

“the black national anthem”

to the tune of

The Star Spangled Banner.

This caused a firestorm of controversy.

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I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Wish_I_Knew_How_It_Would_Feel_to_Be_Free

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IWISHIKNEW                                                                                         Catherine L. Johnson  2011  

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Within Our Gates (1920) – Oscar Micheaux

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Within_Our_Gates

 silent film

Within Our Gates

was produced and directed by Oscar Micheaux in 1919.

He is considered to be the first African-American director of feature films

and

this is the first such film still in existence.

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Within Our Gates

is a 1920 American silent film

by

the director Oscar Micheaux

that portrays the contemporary racial situation

in the United States during the early twentieth century,

the years of Jim Crow,

the revival of the Ku Klux Klan,

the Great Migration

of Blacks to cities of the North and Midwest,

and the emergence of the “New Negro“.

It was part of a genre called race films.

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“Abandoned by her fiancé,

an educated Black woman

with a shocking past

dedicates herself

to helping a near bankrupt school

for impoverished negro youths.”

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Cast (IMDB):

Evelyn Preer as Sylvia Landry;

Flo Clements as Alma Prichard;

James D. Ruffin as Conrad Drebert;

Jack Chenault as Larry Prichard;

William Smith as Detective Philip Gentry;

Charles D. Lucas as Dr. V. Vivian;

Bernice Ladd as Mrs. Geraldine Stratton;

Mrs. Evelyn as Mrs. Elena Warwick;

William Stark as Jasper Landry;

Mattie Edwards as Jasper’s Wife;

Ralph Johnson as Philip Gridlestone;

E.G. Tatum as Efram, Gridlestone’s Servant;

Grant Edwards as Emil Landry;

Grant Gorman as Armand Gridlestone;

Leigh Whipper ;

Jimmie Cook as (uncredited);

S.T. Jacks as Reverend Wilson Jacobs (uncredited).

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