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The Freedom Singers

The Freedom Singers has been played on NTS shows including Asher G's Caribbean Memories, with Aquarius first played on 16 March 2017.

The Freedom Singers were founded in 1962 by Cordell Reagon, Bernice Johnson (Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon), Charles Neblett and Rutha Mae Harris. During the early 1960s the Freedom Singers, from Albany, performed throughout the country to raise funds for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and to inform audiences about the grassroots organizing campaigns expanding in communities across the South.

Perhaps because it originated in the black church, where congregational singing had traditionally formed an essential part of worship, southern civil rights protest was…

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Aquarius
Freedom Singers
Coxsone Records1975
Aquarius
Freedom SingersCoxsone Records1975
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Give Peace A Chance
Freedom Singers
Studio One0
Give Peace A Chance
Freedom SingersStudio One0
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Tell It To Me
Freedom Singers
Studio One1967
Tell It To Me
Freedom SingersStudio One1967
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