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Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon is a singer, activist, historian and a profound contributor to African American culture who organized multi-racial performances in the segregated American South in the 1960s.
Bernice was born in Albany, Georgia, in 1942. She recorded her first solo album, Folk Songs: The South, with Folkways Records in 1965. As she writes, "My history was wrapped carefully for me by my fore-parents in the songs of the church, the work fields, and the blues. Ever since this discovery I've been trying to find myself, using the first music I've ever known as a basic foundation for my search for truth."
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"[The] older generation has told you what they have learned about survival. You actually have to break rank with it or you will never meet yourself." ~Wisdom keeper, civil rights leader, scholar, musician, Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon Grateful you're on the planet, mother.
HibiscusDawn 4 months ago
When a master teacher speaks we learn. I'm thankful God as allowed to listen to Sweet Honey in the Rock
REASERACH 10 months ago