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2. Bernice Johnson Reagon, whose powerful voice helped propel ...

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   NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Bernice Johnson Reagon, a musician and scholar who used her rich, powerful contralto voice in the service of the American Civil Rights Movement and human rights struggles ...

3. James Baldwin: Literary icon and voice for civil rights and ...

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   Civil rights activism and ‘The Fire Next Time’ Baldwin returned to the United States in 1957, drawn by the growing intensity of the civil rights movement. He quickly became a leading voice ...

4. Cordell Reagon - Wikipedia

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   Reagon was born in Nashville, Tennessee, and was named for Cordell Hull, the Secretary of State under President Franklin D. Roosevelt from 1933 to 1944. [1] Reagon's powerful tenor voice spread the message of the civil rights movement throughout the United States and Canada in the 1960s.

5. Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer - Wikipedia

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   Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement is a 2015 non-fiction and poetic children's book by written by Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrated by Ekua Holmes. The book discusses the life of American civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer (1917–1977). Hamer was born to sharecropper parents in Mississippi ...

6. Civil rights movement - Wikipedia

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   The civil rights movement [b] was a social movement and campaign in the United States from 1954 to 1968 that aimed to abolish legalized racial segregation, discrimination, and disenfranchisement in the country, which was most commonly employed against African Americans.

7. Odetta - Wikipedia

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   Odetta Holmes (December 31, 1930 – December 2, 2008), [1] [2] known as Odetta, was an American singer, often referred to as "The Voice of the Civil Rights Movement". [3] Her musical repertoire consisted largely of American folk music, blues, jazz, and spirituals.

8. Bernice Johnson Reagon, whose powerful voice helped propel ...

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   Bernice Johnson Reagon, a musician and scholar who used her rich, powerful contralto voice in the service of the American Civil Rights Movement and human rights struggles around the world, died on ...

9. Martin Luther King Jr. - Wikipedia

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   Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister, activist, and political philosopher who was one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968.