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Matthew Jones

Matthew Jones

Musician · US · 1936–2011

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Country

US

Born

1936-09-17

Died

2011-03-30

Instruments

voice

Identifiers & aliases
Disambiguation

civil rights activist

ISNI

0000000462263260

Description

African-American folk singer and songwriter

Extract from Wikipedia

Matthew Jones was an African-American folk singer/songwriter known for being a field secretary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and part of their The Freedom Singers in the 1960s. Jones was from Nashville, Tennessee, but also worked as a school teacher in Macon, Georgia. He was arrested 20 times for this civil rights activism.

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