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Biography
She was an American song leader, composer, scholar, and civil rights activist. In the early 1960s, she was a founding member of the Freedom Singers.
Awards & recognition
- Heinz Award · 2003
- Charles Frankel Prize · 1995
- Candace Award · 1991
- MacArthur Fellows Program · 1989
- Thomas Merton Award · 1984
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- National Humanities Medal
