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Release Give Your Hands to Struggle: The Evolution of a Freedom Fighter
Year 1975
Label Paredon Records # P-1028
Format LP · Album
Country USA
Language English
Songs here 2 in the archive
Citation: Justin A. Brummer, Vietnam War Song Project (VWSP) — Bernice Johnson Reagon, Give Your Hands to Struggle: The Evolution of a Freedom Fighter; cite each song by its SongID

Give Your Hands to Struggle: The Evolution of a Freedom Fighter

1975 · Album · Paredon Records # P-1028 · USA
2 songs from this release are in the archive, listed below in catalogue order. Track positions are not recorded; the release may carry other songs that do not reference the war. Most common themes: Civil Rights, Anti-War.
Annotation
Bernice Johnson Reagon - born 4 October 1942 in Georgia, Atlanta, USA (died 16 July 2024). She was a contemporary folk singer and political activist, prominent in the Civil Rights movement. She released the album Give Your Hands to Struggle: The Evolution of a Freedom Fighter (1975), which contained two songs referencing the Vietnam War: "Room in the Circle" and "There's a New World Coming". Moreover, she was a member of The Freedom Singers group, which released the album The Freedom Singers Sing of Freedom Now! (1965), which featured the Vietnam War song "I'm a Demonstratin' G.I. From Fort Bragg". In 1968 she featured on the Pete Seeger album Pete Seeger Now (Columbia Records # CS 9717), including one Vietnam War song, "Backlash Blues".

Room in the Circle (Reagon, Bernice)
There's a New World Coming (Reagon, Bernice)

Contemporary folk, gospel - mainly Civil Rights, contained reference to Vietnamese.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Collections
Songs from this release appear in these 2 curated collections.
The songs
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Credited as Bernice Reagon · 1975 · Album · Paredon Records # P-1028 · USA · Give Your Hands to Struggle: The Evolution of a Freedom Fighter

Paredon P-1028; producer Barbara Dane; with an 8-page booklet of song texts. Also on the Smithsonian Folkways CD reissue (SF 40049, 1997).

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Credited as Bernice Reagon · 1975 · Album · Paredon Records # P-1028 · USA · Give Your Hands to Struggle: The Evolution of a Freedom Fighter

Paredon P-1028; producer Barbara Dane.