Bernice Johnson Reagon Quotes About Civil Rights Movement

Quotes about: Civil Rights Movement

• The Civil Rights Movement also reaffirmed me as a singer. It taught me that singing was not entertainment, it was something else.

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  Rights, Singing, Movement

• At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the commercial music industry was actually changed by the Civil Rights Movement.

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  Song, Commercial Music, Rights

• I think the Civil Rights Movement changed that trajectory for me. The first thing I did was leave school. I was suspended for my participation in Movement demonstrations in my hometown, December, 1961

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  School, Thinking, Rights

• 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

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  Rights, People, Focus

• When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement.

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  School, Rights, Culture

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