Bernice Johnson Reagon
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Bernice Johnson Reagon
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Bernice Johnson Reagon was an American song leader, composer, professor of American history, curator at the Smithsonian, and social activist. In the early 1960s, she was a founding member of the Freedom Singers, organized by the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the Albany Movement for civil rights in Georgia. In 1973, she founded the all-black female a cappella ensemble Sweet Honey in the Rock, based in Washington, D.C. Reagon, along with other members of the SNCC Freedom Sin
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American singer, songwriter and scholar (1942–2024)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernice_Johnson_Reagon
date created:
2003-01-24T23:22:50Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T22:21:46Z
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