The HistoryMakers video oral history with Bernice Johnson Reagon.

Format Video (Streaming)
PublicationChicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Description1 online resource (8 video files (3 hr., 44 min., 48 sec.)) : sound, color.
Supplemental Contenthttps://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=https://da.thehistorymakers.org/storiesForBio;ID=A2003.231
Subjects

Other author/creatorReagon, Bernice Johnson, 1942- interviewee.
Other author/creatorCrowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Other author/creatorStearns, Scott, director of photography.
Other author/creatorHistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Variant title History Makers video oral history with Bernice Johnson Reagon
Portion of title Bernice Johnson Reagon
Abstract Professor and music composer Bernice Johnson Reagon was born on October 4, 1942 in Albany, Georgia. In 1961, while attending Albany State College, Reagon was arrested during a civil rights demonstration. She joined the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Freedom Singers after being suspended from the university. Reagon later graduated from Spelman College with her B.A. degree in history and earned her Ph.D. degree in U.S. history from Howard University. In 1973, she founded Sweet Honey in the Rock, a renowned African American a cappella quintet, composing and producing much of the group's repertoire. She has also composed music for several film projects, including the Emmy-winning We Shall Overcome. From 1974, she worked as a folklorist and curator for the Smithsonian Institution and beginning in 1993, was a distinguished professor of history at American University. Reagon's scholarly work focused on African American music and the songs of the civil rights movement.
CreditsVideographer, Scott Stearns.
Performer Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Date/time/place of a event noteRecorded Washington, District of Columbia 2003 September 22.
Date/time/place of a event noteRecorded Washington, District of Columbia 2003 November 21.
Source of descriptionVendor-supplied metadata.
Genre/formInternet videos.
Genre/formInterviews.
Genre/formNonfiction films.
Genre/formOral histories.
Genre/formOral histories.
Genre/formInternet videos.
Genre/formNonfiction films.
Stock numberA2003.231 HistoryMakers

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