As the years of work passed at the Smithsonian as a scholar, I realized that Howard had trained me well for the work I wanted to do.
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The Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife, actually, was an effort to put something on the mall in Washington so American tourists could walk through America, and in their minds everything on the mall would be American.Bernice Johnson Reagon
Well, the first time I ran into the term religion, people were asking whether you had any. You know, some people had religion and some people didn't have religion.
Bernice Johnson Reagon
When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement.
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The first job I had with the Smithsonian was as a field researcher among African American communities in Southwest Louisiana and Arkansas for the festival.
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I organized Sweet Honey In The Rock in 1973. The music was sanity and balance.
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I was at the Smithsonian for twenty years, and I'm still at the Smithsonian as a curator emeritus, and I still plan to figure out what that means for me at this point in my life.
Bernice Johnson Reagon
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