Guy and Candie Carawan collection, 1964 (FT-3673-3685).

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Guy and Candie Carawan collection, 1964 (FT-3673-3685).

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Recordings of "Sing For Freedom: Festival of Negro Folk Music and Freedom Songs", held 7-10 May 1964 at Gammon Theological Center, Old Campus, Atlanta, Ga. The tapes feature workshops on the freedom song repertoire; song leading, taught by African American singers Cordell Reagon, Betty Fikes, and Bernice Johnson Reagon; choir leaders and singers, taught by the Birmingham Movement Choir and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Freedom Singers; songwriting in the freedom movement, taught by African American songwriters Bertha Gober and Matthew Jones, and Anglo-American songwriters Tom Paxton and Phil Ochs; and traditional African American folk music, taught by Bessie Jones, the Georgia Sea Island Singers, Dock Reese, and others. There are also recordings of weekend concerts featuring singers from the South and the North.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Fikes, Betty Mae, 1948-

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Bettie Mae Fikes was a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Freedom Singers, and became known as "the Voice of Selma". She was jailed as a teenager in 1963 for her participation in a Selma protest and was also involved in Bloody Sunday in 1965....

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...

Reagon, Cordell Hull, 1943-1996

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Cordell Hull Reagon was an American singer and activist. He was the founding member of The Freedom Singers of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), a leader of the Albany Movement and a Freedom Rider during the Civil Rights Movement....

Jones, Matthew

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Carwan, Guy.

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Bikel, Theodore

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Gover, Bertha.

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Ochs, Phil

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Sea Island singers

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Birmingham movement choir

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Carawan, Candie

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Guy and Candie Carawan, both natives of California, met in 1960 at the Highlander Folk School (now the Highland Research and Education Center) in New Market, Tenn., as participants in the civil rights movement. Married shortly thereafter, the Carawans have since been active as collectors of folklore and folk music, singers, musicians, educators, and socio-political activists. They are best known for their efforts to document and disseminate music associated with the civil rights mov...

Paxton, Tom, 1937-....

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Reese, Dock

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Jones, Bessie, 1902-1984

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Freedom Singers (SNCC)

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The Freedom Singers were formed in 1962 in Albany, Georgia, to educate communities about civil rights issues through song. The group was intrinsically connected to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)....