Opening Night! Songs of the Civil Rights Movement

July 13, 2016

6:30 pm

9:00 pm

Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church

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A discussion and performance by the surviving original Freedom Singers, the music they created, and the movement they inspired.

Moderator: Award-winning radio personality and producer, Jacquie Gales Webb Featuring: •Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon, Rutha Harris and Charles Neblett • Special guest, Toshi Reagon • Building a Vocal Community with Ysaye Barnwell

A performance by Shannon Dorsey as Fannie Lou Hammer

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