Larry Rubin
Between 1961 and 1965, Larry Rubin was a SNCC field secretary in Georgia and Mississippi supporting African-Americans who were risking their lives attempting to register to vote. In Marshall County and surrounding northern Mississippi counties, he helped organize Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party precincts and helped tenant farmers participate in community committee elections. He helped black and white workers gain the right to vote for a union at the Marshall County Brick and Tile factory. For 45 years, Larry has worked in the labor movement as an organizer, speechwriter, and political advocate.

Magpie
For over 40 years, Greg Artzner and Terry Leonino have raised their voices to celebrate, inform and support struggles for a better world. Their music is powerful, uplifting and inspiring, always drawing on the historical roots that have nourished their artistic collaboration. From demonstrations in Washington, DC, to schools to festival stages, their audiences respond to their strong harmonies and their timeless message: that together we can build bridges of understanding, justice and peace. Magpie is known for their own compositions and their interpretations of the classic songs that were the cultural foundation of the modern civil rights movement.
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Marshall Jones
Marshall Jones was involved in the civil rights movement in Knoxville while studying at the University of Tennessee. His brother Matthew encouraged him to join the SNCC Freedom Singers in 1963 and Marshall performed with the group from 1963 to 1967. During that time, he composed "In The Mississippi River," a tribute to Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney, civil rights workers who were murdered during the Mississippi Summer Project. The song has been included in award-winning documentaries like Neshoba and Eyes on the Prize, as well as CD collections that commemorate that special moment in history when anything seemed possible.

Luci Murphy
Vocalist Luci Murphy is a native of Washington, D.C., where she often leads group singing. She has a long history of community activism, especially working with children at risk. Currently she sings with the SGI New Century Chorus and the D.C. Labor Chorus. In 2007, she received the Paul Robeson Award for Peace and Justice from the Friends of the People's Weekly World. Luci has been performing since her childhood in the 1950s. To reach the members of our diverse human family, she sings in ten languages: English, Spanish, French, Creole, Portuguese, Zulu, Arabic, Hebrew, Cherokee, and ki-Swahili. She draws on the folkloric traditions and musical idioms of all these cultures, as well as her own roots in spirituals, blues and jazz.

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