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Well, the first time I ran into the term religion, people were asking whether you had any. You know
Well, the first time I ran into the term religion, people were asking whether you had any. You know
Well, the first time I ran into the term religion, people were asking whether you had any. You know
Well, the first time I ran into the term religion, people were asking whether you had any. You know
Well, the first time I ran into the term religion, people were asking whether you had any. You know
Well, the first time I ran into the term religion, people were asking whether you had any. You know
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Bernice Johnson Reagon:
I went to a church where you could not sing out loud in the service until you had been saved.Bernice Johnson Reagon:
And I used to think that proof that I had religion was whether I knew how to sing all of the songs.Bernice Johnson Reagon:
I was at the Smithsonian for twenty years, and I'm still at the Smithsonian as a curator emeritus,Bernice Johnson Reagon:
So one of the things that happened with integration in the South is they found that the black teachBernice Johnson Reagon:
I think the Civil Rights Movement changed that trajectory for me. The first thing I did was leave sBernice Johnson Reagon:
At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the comBernice Johnson Reagon:
The Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife, actually, was an effort to put something on the mallBernice Johnson Reagon:
The first job I had with the Smithsonian was as a field researcher among African American communitiBernice Johnson Reagon:
One of the biggest things I understood in a program like that was that it allowed more young AfricaBernice Johnson Reagon:
Personally I discovered that you could go through the academy as a young scholar, come out, and alm