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Introductions by Walter Reich, M.D. , Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

• The Freedom Singers began as the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Freedom Singers, growing out of the Albany, Georgia civil rights movement, where they served as SNCC field secretaries.

Performing today are Rutha Harris, who teaches exceptional children at the Monroe Comprehensive High School, Albany, Georgia; group manager Charles Neblett, the first black elected Magistrate in Logan County, Kentucky, and active in organizing youth through voter registration, learning centers, and political clubs; Cordell Reagon, Berkeley, California, who is active in Urban Habitat, an organization that addresses the problems of Urban Environmental Justice and People of Color; and Betty Mac Fikes, a Selma, Alabama, native known as "the voice of Selma" for her accomplishments as a blues singer.

• The Honorable Miles Lerman is Chairman of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. A resident of Vineland, New Jersey, he survived the Holocaust as a partisan in the forests of southeastern Poland.
  
• The Reverend Alvin Anderson is pastor of Friendship Missionary Baptist Church, Columbia, Tennessee, which burned January 29, 1995.
  
• The Reverend Algie Jarrett is pastor of Mount Calvary Missionary Baptist Church, Hardeman County, Tennessee, which burned January 31, 1995.
  
• The Reverend Harold Smith is pastor of Inner City Church, Knoxville, Tennessee, which burned January 8, 1996.
  
• The Reverend Ed Conner is pastor of Sweet Home Baptist Church, East Baton Rouge, Louisiana, which burned February 1, 1996.
  
• Linwood Manuel is a congregant of Glorious Church of God in Christ, Richmond, Virginia, which burned February 21, 1996.
  
• The Reverend Ivy Haynes is pastor of First Missionary Baptist Church, Enid, Oklahoma, which burned June 13, 1996.
  
• The Freedom Singers