Voices of the Civil Rights Movement, conference tape number 1, OVU 408.5.1
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content: 1980-01-30
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content: Wednesday, January 30, 1980, Songleaders' Workshop, Session I: "Introductions Through Song"

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

Bernice Johnson Reagon introduces Julian Euell, Assistant
Secretary for Public Service, Smithsonian Institution.

Julian Euell gives welcome speech discussing the Office of Public Service 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, Illinios; Mississippi Summer Project '64; Danville, Virginia. 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."

Amanada Bowens Perdew, Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC),   Americus Georgia Movement, and Americus Trio. 

Tells the story of her first mass meeting.