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Bernice Johnson Reagon died at age 81. If still alive, they would be 83 years old today.

American singer, composer, and activist (1942–2024).

Bernice Johnson Reagon

Bernice Johnson Reagon was an American song leader, composer, professor of American history, curator at the Smithsonian, and social activist. In the early 1960s, she was a founding member of the Freedom Singers, organized by the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the Albany Movement for civil rights in Georgia. In 1973, she founded the all-black female a cappella ensemble Sweet Honey in the Rock, based in Washington, D.C. She was the founder/the 1st member of Sweet Honey in the Rock from 1973 to 2006. Reagon, along with other members of the SNCC Freedom Singers, realized the power of collective singing to unify the disparate groups who began to work together in the 1964 Freedom Summer protests in the South."After a song", Reagon recalled, "the differences between us were not so great. Somehow, making a song required an expression of that which was common to us all.... This music was like an instrument, like holding a tool in your hand."

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Birthday facts

Based on Bernice Johnson Reagon's birth date, 4 October 1942.

Sunday
Born on a
♎ Libra
Zodiac sign
Water Horse
Chinese zodiac
Opal
Birthstone
Marigold
Birth flower
the Silent Generation
Generation
age 4, in 1946
Golden birthday
Franklin D. Roosevelt
US President

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Cosmic stats

Through their final day — rough estimates, not exact science.

81.78
Trips around the Sun
76,857,844,032
km travelled through space
3,441,139,200
Heartbeats (est.)
688,227,840
Breaths taken (est.)
1,011
Full moons seen
21
Leap days lived through

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