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Movement Quotes by Bernice Johnson Reagon
- The Civil Rights Movement also reaffirmed me as a singer. It taught me that singing was not entertainment, it was something else.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- The voice I have now, I got the first time I sang in a movement meeting, after I got out of jail... and I'd never…
- When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement.
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