Personal Reflections: Lest I Forget the Civil Rights Movement, the Ligon Jubilie Singers, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Record #:

36507

Author(s):

Smith, Ann Hunt

Abstract:

The author shares her journey of being a vocal music teacher at John W. Ligon High School in Raleigh, NC, creating different music classes, doing music drama, and creating the Ligon Jubilee Singers. She remembers the violence after the shooting of Dr. Martin Luther King, gives her early work in the Civil Rights movement and shares the music she composed after the death of Dr. King.

Source:

Tar Heel Junior Historian (NoCar F 251 T3x), Vol. Vol. 44 Issue No. 1, , p20-24

Subject(s):

North Carolina--Civil Rights Movement; Ligon Jubilee Singers; John W. Ligon High School