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Bernice Johnson Reagon (October 4, 1942 – July 16, 2024) was an American song leader, composer, professor of American history, curator at the Smithsonian, and social activist. In the early 1960s, she was a founding member of the Freedom Singers, organized by the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the Albany ...
Bernice Johnson Reagon war eine Songwriterin, Komponistin, Wissenschaftlerin und Sozialaktivistin. In den frühen 1960er Jahren war sie Gründungsmitglied der Freedom Singers des Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in der Albany-Bewegung in Georgia.
Bernice Johnson Reagon was a renowned composer, historian, musician, and activist. She is also credited with founding Sweet Honey in the Rock, an all-female and all-Black acapella group. Much of her work centers Black identity and social justice and many of her musical projects highlight the Civil Rights Era.
For more than a half-century Bernice Johnson Reagon has been a major cultural voice for freedom and justice; singing, teaching—speaking out against racism and organized inequities of all kinds. A child of Southwest Georgia, an African American woman’s voice, born in the struggle against racism in America during the Civil Rights Movement of ...
19. Juli 2024 · Bernice Johnson Reagon, whose stirring gospel voice helped provide the soundtrack of the civil rights movement, and who went on to become a cultural historian, a curator at the Smithsonian...
22. Juli 2024 · NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Bernice Johnson Reagon, a musician and scholar who used her rich, powerful contralto voice in the service of the American Civil Rights Movement and human rights struggles around the world, died on July 16, according to her daughter’s social media post. She was 81.
17. Juli 2024 · Bernice Johnson Reagon, a civil rights activist who co-founded The Freedom Singers and later started the African American vocal ensemble Sweet Honey in the Rock, died Tuesday at the age of 81.
