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About Matthew Jones
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.
Everything about Matthew Jones →- Occupation
- singer
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- September 17, 1936
- Died
- March 30, 2011