Voices of the Civil Rights Movement, audio cassette, OTC 408.5.1
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content: Maltsby, Portia
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content: Smithsonian Institution. Program in African American Culture
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content: Program in African American Culture Collection / Series 1: Program Files
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content: 1980-02-02
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content: Box 113, Cassette 15
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content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Wednesday, January 30, 1980, Songleaders' Workshop. Session I: "Introductions Through Song"

Side A

Bernice Johnson Reagon, Director of the Program in African American Culture in Performing Arts at the Smithsonian Institution, welcomes conference attendees.

Julian Euell, Assistant Secretary for Public Service, Smithsonian Institution, gives welcome speech discussing the Office of Public Service's work with African American culture; the need to recapture the spirit of change present in the 1960s; and the need to use the feeling and energy of the 1960s to progress into the 1980s.

Bernice Johnson Reagon discusses the role of the Smithsonian in representing American cultures. Explains the conference is a result of the Civil Rights' Movement which addressed the potential of society.

Introduction of the songleaders. Each songleader introduces self with a
song.

Bernice Johnson Reagon, Albany, Georgia, Albany College, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) sings "Shine On Me."

Cordell Reagon, Sit-in Movement; Freedom Rides, Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Nashville, Tennessee; Mississippi; Alabama; Southwest Georgia Project; Cairo, Illinois; Mississippi Summer Project '64; Danville, Virginia.

Side B

Cordell Reagon (continued) sings "If You Walk For Freedom."

Guy Carawan, Highlander Research Center; Nashville, Tennessee. Speaks about the Highlander Center and its role in developing folk music, especially in the Civil Rights' Movement, and traveling throughout  the  South in the 1960s.

Guy and Candie Carawan perform "They Go Wild Over Me."
 
Willie Peacock, Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC); Mississippi. Speaks of his inspiration to make change. Sings "Come By Here."

Amanda Bowens Perdew, Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC); Americus, Georgia Movement; Americus Trio. Tells the story of her first mass meeting. Sings "I Ain't Scared A' Your Jail."

Charles Neblett, Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC); Cairo, Illinois; Freedom Singers I and II; 
Mississippi Summer Project '64.