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The Star-Spangled Banner as national anthem tale
The article traces the anthem’s 1931 official status and debates over its foreign tune and racist verses. It notes Prohibition era supports, competing anthems, and advocacy for replacing it with America the Beautiful, amid Kaepernick protests and broad national discussion of patriotism, history, and symbols.
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Congress
The
United States
Francis Scott Key
Columbia
America
Mark Hildebrand
Herbert Hoover
Colin Kaepernick
San Francisco 49Ers
John Legend
Barack Obama
Kaepernick
Santa Clara
Calif
49Ers
Mark Clague
University of Michigan
Legend
Marc Leepson
Key
John Philip Sousa
Europe
Hildebrand
Sousa
Renee Fleming
John Williams
Jimi Hendrix
Meat Loaf
R. Kelly
Lady Gaga
Tommie Smith
John Carlos
Toni Smith
Manhattanville College
Upstate New York
Marc Ferris
Ferris