#freedomsingers — Public Fediverse posts

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 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

Kid G at #preK school pick up today: Daddy, when we get back to the car can we listen to the #FreedomSingers? Where we left off.