Mary lynn lightfoot biography of george washington

A native of Lewis County, MO and a graduate of Canton High School, Mary Lynn Lightfoot received her BME degree from Truman State University, Kirksville, MO, where she graduated magna cum laude and was the recipient of the Sigma Alpha Iota Scholarship Award.

She taught for a total of eight years in both public and private schools in Missouri and Iowa; has served in varying capacities for both a retail music dealer and a music publisher; served for two years as an Assistant Director for the Mid-America Youth Chorale’s Concert Tour of Europe; and for six years served as the Director of Youth Choirs and Assistant Chancel Choir Director at Blue Ridge Presbyterian Church, Raytown, Missouri.

Mary Lynn served as a choral editor for 30 years in the educational music publishing industry.

Most recently, she was the Founding Editor of the educational choral line for Choristers Guild:  Sing! - Distinctive Choral Music for Classroom, Concert and Festival, a

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Mary Church Terrell

1615 S St. N.W

Washington, D.C.

[1932]

George Washington’s Colored Soldiers:

Hundreds of colored soldiers fought in the Revolutionary War. For several reasons, however, comparatively little is known about the valuable service they rendered. As a general rule, they fought side by side with white soldiers, and not in separate companies. The credit for the deeds of valor they performed, therefore, has gone to the military units to which they belonged, rather than to the race with which they were identified.

On the 5th of March 1776 when George Washington repaired to the entrenchment, he thus appealed to the patriotism of his soldiers: “ Remember it is the 5th of March, and avenge the deaths of your brethren.”

If you had happened to be in Boston on the 5th of March 1770 walking down King Street (now known as State Street) you would have witnessed the incident to which George Washington referred. You would have seen a crowd of colonists who were excited and angry lead by one who was darker in complexion than the others. You would have heard these men challenge with great spirit some British soldiers standing on guard. You would have seen these soldiers fire into the menacing crowd and kill the ringleader, then later on you would have seen three of his comrades fall. The first victim of this clash between the colonies and Great Britain was Crispus Attucks, a colored man.

The tragedy created a great sensation in Boston. The bells of the town were rung, an impromptu town meeting was called and an immense assembly was gathered. Three days afterwards a public funeral of the men who were called “martyrs” took place. The shops in Boston were closed and again all the bell of the place and the neighboring towns were rung. It was said that a greater number of persons assembled on this occasion than had ever gathered together on this continent for a similar purpose.

According to an account of

Conflicting Ways of War and Diplomacy

Somewhat incompatible approaches to warfare and diplomacy exacerbated intercultural misunderstandings. Native warfare stressed the shock effect of surprise using highly mobile overwhelming force. Warriors were led by persuasion, free to go to war or depart on their own volition, exercising individual and small group initiative. In addition, the Iroquois 'mourning war' concept influenced all eastern Indians. It sought to reduce Native casualties and replenish communities with captives in order to sustain populations because of losses to epidemic disease and warfare (Richter (1983) [529][530][531][532][533][534][535][536]. Tactics therefore focused on high-value/low-risk 'soft' targets, especially against noncombatants. Such risk avoidance also affected scouting. Warriors preferred to reconnoiter and attack in sizable parties, supported by allied troops. During such joint missions, warriors frequently Given Tanaghrisson ' s longstanding efforts to energize the Anglo-colonial governments to protect Ohio Indian interests, his new knowledge of imminent Virginia operations apparently was the catalyst and provided the context for his speech and therefore influenced its "very moderate" tenor. He focused on some of Washington ' s military shortcomings, and he implied that an officer more experienced with Native warfare would be necessary to undertake the new campaign. Consequently, his selective use of relatively mild examples of Washington ' s ethnocentrism was probably meant to initiate Native-colonial action, not to explain the earlier defeat or merely to complain. Although the powerful slaves simile appears to describe Washington ' s personal ethnocentrism, the verb "commanded," while not exclusively a military term, strongly implied a military meaning. This complaint, therefore, probably referred to Native warriors being

2. Dona Nobis Pacem – by Mary Lynn Lightfoot

This version of “Dona Nobis Pacem” belongs to the most popular works of the composer Mary Lynn Lightfoot. A wonderful setting of the old text.

3. Francis´ Prayer - Sancta Maria

'Francis' Prayer - Sancta Maria' is one of many beautiful songs from the musical-oratorio, Francis of Assisi – God’s Troubadour, which has been successfully performed in several countries in Europe.

In 2014 singers from all over the world were invited to participate in the virtual choir project, World Peace Choir, to sing this song. Videos of 150 singers from 16 different countries created a unique choir whose members have never met, having contributed their voices entirely through the internet. The inspiration to start World Peace Choir came from the teachings of Saint Francis and also from his birthplace, the medieval Italian city of Assisi, also known as city of peace.