Bernice Johnson Reagon

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Communications

#6513

World Rank

#8967

Historical Rank

#2858

USA Rank

Linguistics

#1745

World Rank

#2197

Historical Rank

#452

USA Rank

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According to Wikipedia, Bernice Johnson Reagon is a song leader, composer, scholar, and social activist, who in the early 1960s was a founding member of the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee's Freedom Singers in the Albany Movement in Georgia. In 1973, she founded the all-black female a cappella ensemble Sweet Honey in the Rock, based in Washington, D.C. Reagon, along with other members of the SNCC Freedom Singers, realized the power of collective singing to unify the disparate groups who began to work together in the 1964 Freedom Summer protests in the South. The Albany Singing Movement became a vital catalyst for change through music in the early 1960s protests of the Civil Rights era. Reagon devoted her life to social justice through music via recordings, activism, community singing, and scholarship.

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Bernice Johnson Reagon's Published Works

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Coalition Politics: Turning the Century (2015) (132)
If You Don't Go, Don't Hinder Me: The African American Sacred Song Tradition (2001) (27)
African Diaspora Women: The Making of Cultural Workers (1986) (25)
We'll Understand It Better By and By: Pioneering African American Gospel Composers (1992) (23)
My Black Mothers and Sisters or on Beginning a Cultural Autobiography (1982) (21)
Cultures in Contention (1985) (15)
Let the Church Sing "Freedom" (1987) (14)
“Nobody Knows the Trouble I See”; or, “By and By I'm Gonna Lay Down My Heavy Load” (1991) (11)
Black People and Their Culture: Selected Writings from the African Diaspora (1976) (2)
Impressions of Cuban Culture by an Afro-American Artist (1977) (2)
Movement Songs that Moved the Nation. (1983) (1)
Contributors (2002) (0)
Breaths : over 60 minutes of music (1981) (0)
African American spirituals : the concert tradition (1994) (0)
Protest Music As Responsible Citizenship (2003) (0)
African American congregational singing : nineteenth-century roots (1994) (0)
Accession 009612 Oral History Interview with Bernice Johnson Reagon, 1986 (1986) (0)
Envisioning Folklore Activism (2011) (0)
A Borning Struggle (1980) (0)
African American gospel : the pioneering composers (1994) (0)
A History of the Afro-American Through His Songs. Part of a Packet with Audiotape. (1969) (0)
African American community gospel (1994) (0)

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