Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon, singer, activist, and historian, organized multi-racial performances in the segregated American South of the 1960s. Conversation recorded October 22, 2003. Bernice was born in Albany, Georgia, in 1942. She recorded her first solo album, Folk Songs: The South, with Folkways Records in 1965. As she writes, "My history was wrapped carefully for me by my fore-parents in the songs of the church, the work fields, and the blues. Ever since this discovery I've been trying to find myself, using the first music I've ever known as a basic foundation for my search for truth." More about Bernice Johnson Reagon, Civil Rights song leader