Author Daniel Buttry writes ‘The World Music Festival,’ a series of profiles with videos of musical peacemakers. Here he reports on The Freedom Singers.
Category: Civil Rights Movement
Mahalia Jackson
Author Daniel Buttry writes ‘The World Music Festival,’ a series of profiles with videos of musical peacemakers. Here he reports on Mahalia Jackson.
Sweet Honey in the Rock
Author Daniel Buttry writes ‘The World Music Festival,’ a series of profiles with videos of musical peacemakers. Here he reports on Sweet Honey in the Rock.
Pete Seeger
Peacemaker Daniel Buttry profiles the late American folksinger Pete Seeger (1919-2014) along with a story about Pete from singer-songwriter David LaMotte.
Simeon Booker
Benjamin Pratt profiles JET’s and Ebony’s Simeon Booker, whose life story is in Shocking the Conscience: A Reporter’s Account of the Civil Rights Movement.