Remembering Freedom Singer Bernice Johnson Reagon [orig. broadcast 1988]
https://www.npr.org/2024/08/01/g-s1-14762/remembering-freedom-singer-bernice-johnson-reagon

* quartet galvanized 1930s civil rights movement

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernice_Johnson_Reagon

* American song leader, prof. American history, composer, historian, musician, scholar, curator at Smithsonian, social activist
* founding member, Freedom Singers
* founded all-Black a cappella grp. Sweet Honey in the Rock

#FreedomSingers #BerniceJohnsonReagon #CivilRights #HumanRights #BlackHistory #SweetHoneyInTheRock

The phenomenal Bernice Johnson Reagon, of the Freedom Singers and founder of Sweet Honey in the Rock, has died. May she Rest In Peace.

https://www.npr.org/2024/07/17/1213897036/bernice-johnson-reagon-sweet-honey-in-the-rock-obituary

#FreedomSingers
#FolkMusic
#blackmastodon

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The Versatiles / The Freedom Singers – Pick My Pocket / Freedom
Label: Aggrobeat – AB 050
Format: Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, Single, Reissue, Remastered
Country: Netherlands
Released: Mar 1, 2021
Genre: Reggae

The Versatiles / Tiger And The Versatiles – Give It To Me / Hot
Label: Aggrobeat – AB 051
Format: Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, Reissue, Remastered
Country: Netherlands
Released: Mar 1, 2021
Genre: Reggae

#Skinhead #RecordCollection #Reggae #TheVersatiles #FreedomSingers #LaurelAitken

The young #BerniceJohnsonReagon of the #SNCC #FreedomSingers sings “Will the Circle Be Unbroken.” cc @riverrat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GccfFkbzjrc

#PeteSeeger #RainbowQuest #CivilRightsMovement #music #BlackMusic