Bernice Johnson Reagon (1942–2024)
Author of We Who Believe in Freedom
About the Author
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Works by Bernice Johnson Reagon
If You Don't Go, Don't Hinder Me: The African American Sacred Song Tradition (Abraham Lincoln Lecture Series) (2001) 35 copies
We'll understand it better by and by : pioneering African American gospel composers (1992) 32 copies
Africans in America [soundtrack] 2 copies
River of Life/Harmony One 1 copy
Sweet Honey in the Rock 1 copy
Associated Works
Ain't You Got a Right to the Tree of Life? The People of Johns Island, South Carolina: Their Faces, Their Words, and Their Songs (1966) — Afterword, some editions — 55 copies, 1 review
A Way Out of No Way: Writing about Growing Up Black in America (1996) — Contributor — 36 copies, 2 reviews
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Birthdate
- 1942-10-04
- Date of death
- 2024-07-16
- Gender
- female
- Education
- Albany State College, Albany, Georgia
Spelman College (Bx)
Howard University (PhD | History) - Occupations
- singer
songwriter
composer
historian
folklorist
ethnomusicologist (show all 7)
professor - Organizations
- SNCC Freedom Singers
Harambee Singers (founder)
Black Repertory Theater, Washington, DC (vocal director)
Sweet Honey In The Rock (founder, director)
Smithsonian Institution African Diaspora Project
Smithsonian Institution National Museum of American History (show all 7)
American University (professor) - Awards and honors
- Charles Frankel Prize (1995)
National Humanities Medal (1995)
MacArthur Fellowship (1989) - Relationships
- Reagon, Toshi (offspring)
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Dougherty County, Georgia, USA
- Associated Place (for map)
- Georgia, USA
Members
Reviews
PROGRAM Program in Black American Culture: Black American Quartet Traditions, November 20 & 21, 1981 Smithsonian Performing Arts, Baird Auditorium, National Museum of Natural History by Bernice Reagon Johnson
On this program:
Performances: Sterling Jubilees, Four Eagles, Fairfield Four, The Sensational Nightingales,
Colloquium: Bernice Reagon Johnson, Portia Maultsby, Thermon Ruth, Doug Seroff, Rev. Isaac Ravizee
Performances: Sterling Jubilees, Four Eagles, Fairfield Four, The Sensational Nightingales,
Colloquium: Bernice Reagon Johnson, Portia Maultsby, Thermon Ruth, Doug Seroff, Rev. Isaac Ravizee
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Statistics
- Works
- 14
- Also by
- 4
- Members
- 139
- Popularity
- #147,350
- Rating
- 4.2
- Reviews
- 1
- ISBNs
- 10