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Bernice Johnson Reagon

Born: October 4, 1942

Nationality: American

Occupation: Musician, singer, songwriter, scholar

Biography: Bernice Johnson Reagon is a singer, composer, scholar, and social activist, who founded the a cappella ensemble Sweet Honey in the Rock in 1973.

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Bernice Johnson Reagon

“And I used to think that proof that I had religion was whether I knew how to sing all of the songs.”

- Bernice Johnson Reagon

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Bernice Johnson Reagon

“At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the commercial music industry was actually changed by the Civil Rights Movement.”

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Bernice Johnson Reagon

“But I'm a historian. I wasn't interested in just being a producer, I was interested in doing research and presenting that research to a general public.”

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Bernice Johnson Reagon

“I came out of the Civil Rights Movement, and I had a different kind of focus than most people who have just the academic background as their primary training experience.”

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Bernice Johnson Reagon

“I just don't think one person has that much to contribute to any subject.”

- Bernice Johnson Reagon

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Bernice Johnson Reagon

“I learned that if you bring black people together, you bring them together with a song. To this day, I don't understand how people think they can bring anybody together without a song.”

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Bernice Johnson Reagon

“I organized Sweet Honey In The Rock in 1973. The music was sanity and balance.”

- Bernice Johnson Reagon

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Bernice Johnson Reagon

“I started graduate school in 1971, I started working at the Smithsonian in the festival in 1972. I went full-time at the Smithsonian in 1974. And I got my doctorate in 1975.”

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Bernice Johnson Reagon

“I think the Civil Rights Movement changed that trajectory for me. The first thing I did was leave school. I was suspended for my participation in Movement demonstrations in my hometown, December, 1961.”

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Bernice Johnson Reagon

“I was at the Smithsonian for twenty years, and I'm still at the Smithsonian as a curator emeritus, and I still plan to figure out what that means for me at this point in my life.”

- Bernice Johnson Reagon

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Bernice Johnson Reagon

“I went to a church where you could not sing out loud in the service until you had been saved.”

- Bernice Johnson Reagon

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Bernice Johnson Reagon

“If I had been at a University I don't think I would have been able to have the experience I had in my Smithsonian work. I don't think I have been as successful.”

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Bernice Johnson Reagon

“In fact when Sweet Honey was ten years old it was too big for me to run, and I knew it, but I ran it for another thirteen years because I couldn't convince other people to really do it. And this year, I'm not running it.”

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Bernice Johnson Reagon

“It makes sense that whatever the topic is, it's more compelling if you can provide the audience with a range of perspectives, and you can cross disciplines. And you don't have to control what people take out of it.”

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