Interview [sound recording], Jan. 27, 1982.

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Interview [sound recording], Jan. 27, 1982.

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Interview conducted by Therese Spaude with singer and civil rights activist Bernice Reagon. Reagon discusses her involvement in the civil rights movement, especially her role as a professional singer performing at rallies, etc., and the role of music in the black community and in the civil rights movement.

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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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...

Spaude, Therese,

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