Bernice Johnson Reagon

Bernice Johnson Reagon is a song leader, composer, scholar, and social activist, who in the early 1960s was a founding member of the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee's (SNCC) Freedom Singers in the Albany Movement in Georgia. In 1973, she founded the all-black female a cappella ensemble Sweet Honey in the Rock, based in Washington, D.C. 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."

4 October 1942

Born on the same birth date (4 October 1942): Christopher Stone (actor) • Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir • Karl W. Richter

Born on the same birth day (4 October): Alys of France, Countess of Vexin • August Mälk • Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı • Edward Stratemeyer • Giles Radice • John Ellis (executioner) • Kenichi Fukui • Robert Lawson (author) • Sarah Fisher • Thorsten Wiedemann • Vic Hadfield • Vicky Bullett

Born in the same month (October 1942): Allan Grice • Bart Zoet • Bernd Erdmann • Bob Bailey (baseball) • Christopher Stone (actor) • David Stancliffe • Evelio Javier • Fred Travalena • Gloria Katz • Janis Hansen (singer) • Janusz Korwin-Mikke • Lee Greenwood • Melvin Franklin • Michael Palmer (novelist) • Rafael Cordero Santiago • Rutanya Alda