Lift Every Voice and Sing
In 1919, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) called "Lift Every Voice and Sing" the "Negro national anthem". It did this, because of the song's  power in voicing a cry for liberation and affirmation for African American people. James Weldon Johnson would become  the NAACP's first executive secretary the following year. It has also been called "the Black national anthem".