Welcome to Community Celebration of Place!

Born: 1924
in California, USA

Words of Wisdom:
Respect your teacher. Learn to respect each other.
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Honor Song:
Be Kind to All That Live, performed by Larry Long
Be Kind to All That Live, performed by Students at Valley View Elementary

Slideshow:
Photos from Helen Tsuchiya

Freedom, Oh Freedom was recorded by Larry Long and the children of rural Alabama to celebrate the life of Ezra Cunningham, one of the first people to register African Americans voters in the South.

Now a new film from the Marshall Islands is breathing new life into the song. "Ña Noniep" stars local schoolchildren, several of whom asked if "Freedom, Oh Freedom" could be included in the film. They recorded a wonderful version of the song, which you can listen to here.

For more about the movie and schoolchildren, you can read Larry Long's Journal entry talking about it here.

To learn more about Ezra Cunningham and to hear a recording of him speaking to schoolchildren about the importance of oral history, you can visit his biography here.