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Zilphia Horton

real name Zilphia Mae Johnson

Zilphia Horton is credited on 526 releases across 96 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1962–2023 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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526

Credits

96

Albums

7

Decades active

61

In collections

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American musician, community organizer, educator, Civil Rights activist, and folklorist, born 1910 in Paris, Arkansas and died 1956 of kidney failure after accidentally drinking a glass of typewriter cleaning fluid she mistook for water. She is best known for helping to transform the song "We Shall Overcome" into a Civil Rights anthem in 1946.

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Credited work

526 releases · 96 albums · active 1962–2023

  • Performance · 530
  • Other credits · 22

Studios: Carnegie Hall · Judson Hall · Miles College, Birmingham, Alabama · Eldorado Recording Studios

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