Bernice Johnson

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Bernice Johnson is an American singer, composer, scholar, and civil rights activist best known as the founder of the African American a cappella ensemble Sweet Honey in the Rock.

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instanceOf civil rights activist
composer
human
music historian
scholar
singer
song leader
awardReceived Heinz Award in the Arts and Humanities
linked to: Heinz Award

MacArthur Fellowship
National Medal of Arts
child Toshi Reagon
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1942-10-04
educatedAt Albany State College
Howard University
Spelman College
employer American University
Smithsonian Institution
ethnicGroup African American
linked to: Black Americans
familyName Johnson Reagon
fieldOfWork African American music
civil rights history
ethnomusicology
founded Sweet Honey in the Rock
genre a cappella
folk music
gospel music
givenName Bernice
hasAcademicDegree PhD in history
languageOfWorkOrName English
memberOf SNCC Freedom Singers
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
movement American civil rights movement
name Bernice Johnson Reagon
notableWork founder of Sweet Honey in the Rock
“If You Don’t Go, Don’t Hinder Me”
“We Who Believe in Freedom: Sweet Honey in the Rock Still on the Journey”
occupation civil rights activist
composer
scholar
singer
university professor
placeOfBirth Albany, Georgia
Dougherty County, Georgia
residence Washington, D.C.
spouse Cordell Reagon
stateOfBirth Georgia

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Bernice Johnson Reagon birthName Bernice Johnson