I learned that if you bring... by Bernice Johnson Reagon, an American Musician

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“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

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Name: Bernice Johnson Reagon

Nationality: American

Date of Birth: Oct 4, 1942

Profession: Musician

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The first job I had with the Smithsonian was as a field researcher among African American communities in Southwest Louisiana and Arkansas for the festival.

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

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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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One of the biggest things I understood in a program like that was that it allowed more young African American scholars to do field research in the Caribbean and in Africa than had ever happened before in the history of the country and since.

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