The Freedom Singer

Role: Producer

Selected for Video Consortium Atlanta’s programming

In the early 1960s, The Freedom Singers traveled across the country to raise funds for the civil rights movement. Their songs spread a message of determination and hope. Rutha Mae Harris was one of the original members of The Freedom Singers, and she still takes every chance she can to tell the story of the civil rights movement through song. This piece shares the oral history of a civil rights activist that left college and the path she was on, to fight for the rights of Black folks in her community and give everything she had to the movement.