It takes the form of a harp. A kneeling man holding a rectangular plate represents the foot pedal. The folds of choir robes worn by twelve stylized young black singers in graduated heights from the strings of the harp. And the hand and arm of God stand-in for the sounding board. The composition casts the singers as instruments of God and in so doing highlights the religiosity of its source material. “Lift Every Voice and Sing” was written as a poem by Savage’s friend James Weldon Johnson in 1900, set to music by his brother John Rosamond Johnson in 1905, and declared the “Negro National Anthem” by the NAACP in 1919.
The resulting sculpture was 16 ft (4.9 m) high, taking the form of a large harp, with the strings represented by twelve black singers of decreasing size standing in long robes, supported by a long arm and hand representing the arm of God as the sounding board of the instrument – perhaps alluding to the traditional Spiritual "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands". In front of the harp, the figure of a bare-chested black man was kneeling, holding sheet music for the song.
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