“And when there is the possibility of a storm…..”
March 18, 2019 | Dorothy SmithDr. Bernice Johnson Reagon, singer-song writer, historian, civil rights activist, founder of Sweet Honey in the Rock and a very important mentor of mine. I will never forget the moment in my life over 25 years ago when I heard Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon introduce the spiritual Wade in the Water. I knew she was speaking both literally and metaphorically.
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Bayard Rustin’s Ohio Connections
August 19, 2018 | Dorothy SmithBayard Rustin [far right] sang tenor with the Wilberforce College Quartet in 1933.Bayard Rustin has several interesting connections to this area of Ohio. Rustin attended Wilberforce College in Wilberforce, Ohio, from 1932-1934 on a music scholarship. He sang tenor and traveled throughout the US with the acclaimed Wilberforce Quartet; Dr. Carl Hyde, retired physician, Quaker, age 90, resident of Friends
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