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James A. Bland: Facts

Categories: 1854 births | 1911 deaths | Songwriters Hall of Fame inductees | American songwriters | African American musicians | Blackface minstrel performers | Blackface minstrel songwriters | Deaths from tuberculosis | Howard University alumni | People from Queens

James A. Bland (1854-1911) an African American musician and song writer wrote over 700 songs, including "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny" in 1878, which was later the official State Song of Virginia from 1940 to 1997?