 Song leader and civil rights activist Bernice Johnson Regan has died. She was 81 years old. Her daughter Toshi Regan shared the news last night in a Facebook post. Adjoa Jimabrempong has this remembrance. Song is inseparable from political struggle. And in the 1960s, the voice leading those songs was often Bernice Johnson Regan. She was born in southwest Georgia, the daughter of a Baptist minister.