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Bernice Johnson Reagon
American singer, composer, and activist
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dead
- born
- 1942
- died
- 2024
- age at death
- 81
- known for
- singer, composer, historian
1942 – 2024
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who bernice johnson reagon is
Bernice Johnson Reagon 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 Movement for civil rights in Georgia. In 1973, she founded the all-black female a cappella ensemble Sweet Honey in the Rock, based in Washington, D.C.
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