5/19/2023 0 Comments May we forever stand![]() ![]() ![]() They also engaged the best seamstresses to make the floating graduating dresses and to cut down secondhand pants which would be pressed to a military slickness for the important event.” (p. “ Parents who could afford it had ordered new shoes and ready-made clothes for themselves from Sears and Roebuck or Montgomery Ward. 107)Īngelou describes the excitement in the entire community as she and her classmates approached graduation. In 1929 a replacement was built with Rosenwald funds.” This is the Lafayette County Training School Angelou attended. Then, in 1907, with funds from the Slater Foundation and the community, they built a two-story schoolhouse. Let Maya Angelou’s 8th grade graduation in Stamp, Arkansas in 1942 as recounted in her memoir, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, stand as a quintessential story of the role “Lift Every Voice And Sing” played for generations of black schoolchildren all across the Jim Crow South.Īs Perry recounts, “ …the colored school in Stamps met in local Colored Methodist Episcopal and African Methodist Episcopal churches. ![]() ( One in a series of posts on Imani Perry’s 2018 book, May We Forever Stand: A History Of The Black National Anthem.) ![]()
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