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Reagon, Cordell Hull, 1943-1996

Biography:

A Nashville, Tennessee native; Freedom rider from Montgomery, Alabama to Jackson, Mississippi on June 2, 1961 and from Atlanta, Georgia to Albany, Georgia on November 1, 1961; and a member of the SNCC Freedom Singers, Reagon was a SNCC activist in Albany and Southwest Georgia from 1961 to 1963. He married fellow Freedom Singer Bernice Johnson in 1963, and their marriage ended in divorce in 1967.

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Archival Collections and Reference Resources

• Documenting Our Past: The Teenie Harris Archive Project (Carnegie Museum of Art)
  • Trailways lunch counter sit-in (Black-and-white photographs)
• Freedom Riders' 40th Anniversary Oral History Project, 2001 (John Davis Williams Library (University of Mississippi))
  • Oral history interview with Marv Davidov, 2001 (Oral histories)
• Individuals Active in Civil Disturbances, volume 2 (Alabama Department of Archives and History)
  • Cordell Hull Reagon (Black-and-white photographs)
• New Georgia Encyclopedia (New Georgia Encyclopedia)
  • Bernice Johnson Reagon (b. 1942) (articles)
• Series 2515 : Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission Records Online, 1994-2006, Photographs (Mississippi Department of Archives and History)
  • Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of Cordell Hull Reagon following his arrest for his participation in the Freedom Rides, Jackson, Mississippi, 1961 June 2 (Black-and-white photographs)