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3 unusual facts about Every Race Has a Flag but the Coon


Every Race Has a Flag but the Coon

"Every Race Has a Flag but the Coon" was a song written by Will A. Heelan, and J. Fred Helf that was popular in the United States and Britain.

Lottie Gilson, Williams and Walker, Frances Curran, Hodges and Launchmere, Libby and Bennett, Zoa Matthews, Johnnie Carroll, Clarice Vance, Gerie Gilson, Joe Bonnell, The Eldridges and "100 other artists" sang the song with "overwhelming success" according to its sheet music.

J. Fred Helf

1900: "Absent But Not Forgotten"; "Every Race Has a Flag but the Coon" which resulted in the creation of the Red, black and green flag by the UNIA ; "The Fatal Rose of Red"; "I Ain't Got No Happy Home To Leave!"; "In the House of Too Much Trouble"; "There Are Two Sides To A Story"; "Tobie I Kind O' Likes You"


Four Eleven Forty Four

The phrase "four eleven forty-four" appeared in the racist coon song, "Every Race Has a Flag but the Coon" by Will A. Heelan & J. Fred Helf, in 1900.


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