At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the … - Bernice Johnson Reagon

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Twenty thousand thieves landed at Hastings. These founders of the House of Lords were greedy and ferocious dragoons, sons of greedy and ferocious pirates. . . Such, however, is the illusion of antiquity and wealth, that decent and dignified men now existing, boast their descent from these filthy thieves, who showed a far juster conviction of their own merits, by assuming for their types the swine, goat, jackal, leopard, wolf, and snake, which they severally resembled.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the commercial music industry was actually changed by the Civil Rights Movement.

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I came out of the Civil Rights Movement, and I had a different kind of focus than most people who have just the academic background as their primary training experience

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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

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I went to a church where you could not sing out loud in the service until you had been saved

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If I had been at a University I don't think I would have been able to have the experience I had in my Smithsonian work. I don't think I have been as successful

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I just don't think one person has that much to contribute to any subject

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