Bernice Johnson Reagon, civil rights song leader and co-founder of The Freedom Singers who later started the acapella ensemble Sweet Honey in the Rock, has died at the age of 81. Reagon’s death ...

We're going to remember Bernice Johnson Reagon, a founding member of the group. She died last month at the age of 81. The Freedom Singers was affiliated with SNCC, the Student Nonviolent ...

Reagon, who died July 16, was one of the powerful singers who helped galvanize the civil rights movement in the 1960s as a member of the Freedom Singers quartet. Originally broadcast in 1988.