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Bookmark or Share- Francis Scott Key | American Battlefield TrustWe're launching interpretation of African American history at 7 key battlefields, located in 5 states, spanning 3 wars. Francis Scott Key was born on August 1, 1779. His father, John Ross Key, had just returned from being a second lieutenant in Captain Thomas Price’s...
- The Story Behind the Star Spangled Banner - Smithsonian MagazineA week earlier, Francis Scott Key, a 35-year-old American lawyer, had boarded the flagship of the British fleet on the Chesapeake Bay in hopes of persuading the British to release a friend...
- Francis Scott Key | American Lawyer, Poet & SongwriterFrancis Scott Key was an American lawyer, best known as the author of the U.S. national anthem, “The Star-Spangled Banner.” Key was born into an affluent family on an estate called Terra Rubra. At age 10 he entered St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland, from which he graduated in 1796.
- The Star-Spangled Banner - Lyrics, Writer & Song | HISTORYThe Star-Spangled Banner, written by lawyer Francis Scott Key in 1814, emerged as a popular patriotic song before becoming the U.S. national anthem in 1931.
- The Star-Spangled Banner - WikipediaIn San Francisco, the statue of Francis Scott Key—the nation's first memorial to the anthem's lyricist Key, a slaveowner—was toppled by protestors on June 19, 2020 and in June 2021 was replaced by 350 black steel sculptures that honor the first 350 Africans kidnapped and forced onto a slave ship headed across the Atlantic from Angola in 1619.
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