Voices of the Civil Rights Movement,  programs
name: label: Collection Collector
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
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content: Program in African American Culture Collection / Series 1: Program Files
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content: 1980 January 30 – February 3
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content: Box 2, Folder 2
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Archival materials
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content: Project co-sponsored by Howard University and the Smithsonian Institution. Featured evening concerts and a series of workshops and panels investigating aspects of Civil Rights Movement culture and its documentation. On Wednesday, January 30, and Thursday, January 31, 1980, Voices of the Civil Rights Movement, A National Working Conference on Civil Rights Movement Culture, held Songleaders' Workshop. Participants included Ibisoto Ajamu, Reverend James Brevel, Sam Block, Guy Carawan, Len Chandler, Jimmy Collier, Dorothy Cotton, James Farmer, Betty Mae Fikes, Charles Freeney, Emory Harris, Rutha Mae Harris, Jamila (Mary Ethel Jones), Marshall Jones, Matt Jones, Cleo Kennedy, Reverend Frederick Douglas Kirkpatrick, Bernard Lafayette, John Lewis, Joycelyn McKissick, Charles Neblett, Chico Neblett, Willie Peacock, James Orange, James Peacock, Amanda Bowens Perdew, Cordell Reagon, Carlton Reese, Reverend Charles Sherrod, and Hollis Watkins. 

Friday, February 1, included a colloquium, discussing "The Black Church," "Activist Communities," and "Ethics and Morality." Friday also included an opening reception for "We'll Never Turn Back: An Exhibit of Movement Photographers." The photographers were Diana J. M. Davies, Bob Fitch, Bob Fletcher, Roland L. Freeman, Dee Gorton, Doug Harris, Matt Herron, Julius Lester, Danny Lyon, Charles Moore, Elaine Tomlin, Maria Varela, and Tamio Wakayama. 

Saturday, February 2, included a colloquium, discussing "Telling the Story" and "Reconstructing History;" four small group workshops; and a concert. 

Sunday, February 3, included "National Dissemination" and two concerts. The facilitators were Bernice Johnson Reagon, Vincent Harding, Howard Zinn, Julian Bond, Steven Henderson, and Ella Baker. Other presenters were Reverend Charles Sherrod, Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth, Diane Nash-Bevel, Reverend Dr. Wyatt Tee Walker, E. D. Nixon, Bob Moses, Dave Dennis, Bob Fletcher, Marc Crawford, Amzie Moore, Moses Moon (Alan Ribback), Thomas C. Battle, Joanne Grant, and James Forman. Program number AC408.5.