“… [In 1932], the NAACP convened at Harpers Ferry … [and dedicated a marker to honor John Brown]. [Historians] describe how the group declined to perform “America” … and [instead broke into the ‘Battle Hymn’] …”
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The rousing urgency of the song seems to possess a power that, according to its own lyrics, “transfigures you and me.”
