O say can you see by the dawn's early light,
That Today has been shaped by Sixty years of fight?
For what started off with humanity lost and screaming,
Transformed through Brown and began the dreaming.
They screamed through the night, segregation was unfair
And sweet justice began to seep through the air,
With Plessy overturned the star-spangled banner began to wave
O’er the land not yet free, the one needed to be saved.


On the streets dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
The bus traveled along looking for passengers to keep,
It was the bus that would signal the shift and be known as Roses’
For the woman, who took a seat to beat what evil imposes.
Nonviolence prevailed and justice rolled down like a mighty stream
As the boycotters joined together to work as a team.
As the movements began, the star-spangled banner began to wave
O’er the land not yet free, the one needed to be saved.


And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That police brutality would ease to be no more?
Many leaders rose along to finally end this seclusion,
With the hopes that equality would be the solution,
No more, no more, no longer a cultural slave,
It had to be achieved, the desires that they all began to crave.
As Malcolm and Martin rose, the star-spangled banner began to wave
O’er the land not yet free, but soon to be saved.


O thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Together believers walked to Washington to make their demand,
On that day we were brought one step closer to being a nation
When “I Have A Dream” became a line burned into our education.
They were words spoken without fear and in demand for the just
Because he believed that brotherly love was an absolute must
And as we reflect, we remember a man who had our trust.
The one who has let the star-spangled banner begin to wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!