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Bernice Johnson Reagon (born 1942)
Photo by Diane A. Penland, 1981
Bernice Johnson Reagon
Bernice Johnson Reagon—along with Cordell Reagon, Rutha Harris, and Charles Neblett—founded the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Freedom Singers, an early and influential group of civil rights singers. She would later cofound the women’s a capella group Sweet Honey in the Rock and work as Director of the Program in Black American Culture at the National Museum of American History. |