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SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference. Volume 36, Freedom concert.
- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.). 50th Anniversary Conference (2010 : Raleigh, N.C.)
- Series:
- SNCC legacy video ; 36
- Black studies in video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.).
- African American women civil rights workers--Biography.
- African American women civil rights workers.
- African Americans--Civil rights--Songs and music.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Music--Social aspects.
- Civil right movements--United States--Songs and music.
- Civil right movements.
- Political ballads and songs--United States.
- Political ballads and songs.
- Protest songs--United States.
- Protest songs.
- Genre:
- Nonfiction films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (107 minutes).
- Other Title:
- Freedom concert
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, 2011.
- Language Note:
- This edition in English.
- Summary:
- SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference Volume 36 - Freedom Concert FEATURED MUSICIANS: Hot 8 Brass Band, SNCC Freedom Singers. This session is full of the sound and power of movement song. Bernice Johnson Reagon explains the origin of the SNCC Freedom Singers. She introduces a brief video of Cordell Reagon who organized the singers with Charles Sherrod. Many well known activists participate in the session including Guy Carawan who introduced We Shall Overcome to SNCC in 1960. Folk singer Len Chandler, a regular presence at protests and rallies, explains singing freedom songs: "When you hear something twice, sing it!" Harry Belafonte leads the audience in his famous Banana Boat Song. SNCC's own anthem, We'll Never Turn Back, written by Georgia activist Bertha Gober, closes out the concert.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed Mar. 20, 2013).
- OCLC:
- 840838452
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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