The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Bernice Johnson Reagon

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The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Bernice Johnson Reagon

9/22/2003; 11/21/2003

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A2003.231

Curator, music composer, and history professor Bernice Johnson Reagon (1942 - ) founded Sweet Honey in the Rock, an award-winning a cappella quintet that performs traditional African and African American music. She has been curator emeritus at the Smithsonian since 1993. Reagon also enjoyed a distinguished career as a professor of history at American University from 1993 to 2002. Reagon was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 9/22/2003 and 11/21/2003, in Washington, D.C.. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 2; Total Tapes: 8; Total Run Time: 03h 44m 48s

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Reagon, Bernice Johnson, 1942-

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Born on October 4, 1942, Bernice Johnson Reagon grew up in Albany, Georgia, where she became involved in the civil rights movement. As a student at Albany State College in 1961, Reagon was arrested for participating in a SNCC demonstration. She spent the night in jail singing songs and after her arrest joined the SNCC Freedom Singers to use music as a tool for civic action. Reagon earned her B.A. in history from Spelman College in 1970. In 1973, she founded Sweet Honey in the Rock, an award-winn...