Bernice Johnson Reagon

United States
October 4, 1942

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Bernice Johnson Reagon (born Bernice Johnson on October 4, 1942) is a song leader, composer, scholar, and social activist, who in the early 1960s was a founding member of the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee's (SNCC) Freedom Singers in the Albany Movement in Georgia. In 1973, she founded the all-black female a cappella ensemble Sweet Honey in the Rock, based in Washington, D.C. The Albany Singing Movement became a vital catalyst for change through music in the early 1960s protests of the Civil Rights era. Reagon devoted her life to social justice through music via recordings, activism, community singing, and scholarship.She earned her Ph.D. from Howard University becoming a cultural historian, centered on the role of music, and is an emeritus faculty member in the History Department at The American University. She has also been a scholar-in-residence at Stanford and received an honorary doctorate of music from Berklee College of Music.

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Au cours des 14 derniers jours:

14 musiques
6 stations
3 pays

Top chansons des Bernice Johnson Reagon

1	Give Your Hands to Struggle
2	In My Hands
3	River Of Life
4	There's a New World Coming
5	We've come a Long Way to Be Together
6	Room In the Circle
7	Since I Laid My Burden Down
8	Freedom In the Air
9	I Won't Crumble With You If You Fall
10	We Are Climbing Jacob's Ladder
11	Joan Little
12	Hallelu
13	Had, Took, Misled
14	They Are Falling All Around Me

Citations de Bernice Johnson Reagon

I think the Civil Rights Movement changed that trajectory for me. The first thing I did was leave school. I was suspended for my participation in Movement demonstrations in my hometown, December, 1961.