Olmstead Luca Explained

Olmstead Luca (18261869) was a Liberian pianist^[1] and composer. He composed the music for the Liberian national anthem, "All Hail, Liberia, Hail!". He came from a mixed-race family that had immigrated to Liberia from the southern United States.^[2]

Notes and References

1. https://books.google.com/books?id=7hc_AAAAIAAJ&q=%22Olmstead+Luca Black Magic: A Pictorial History of the Negro in American Entertainment By Langston Hughes, Milton Meltzer
2. Harry Hamilton Johnston, Otto Stapf, Liberia, Dodd, Mead, 1906, p. 395.