Editing Bernice Johnson Reagon (section)

===Academic===
In 1974, Reagon was appointed as a cultural historian in music history at the [[Smithsonian Institution]], where she directed a program called Black American Culture in 1976,<ref name="auto">{{cite web|last1=Ida|first1=Jones|title=Guide to the Bernice Johnson Reagon Collection of the African American Sacred Music Tradition, circa 1822–1994|url=http://sova.si.edu/record/NMAH.AC.0653|website=Smithsonian Online Virtual Archives|access-date=March 7, 2018}}</ref> and was later a curator of music history for the [[National Museum of American History]]. [[Ida E. Jones (historian)|Ida Jones]] from the Smithsonian Institution had stated, "Dr. Reagon collected photographs, sheet music, and other primary and secondary sources chronicling the development of African American sacred music tradition from its birth during the period of slavery through the creation of concert spiritual, gospel music, jazz, and the performance of protest song in the century following Emancipation," with relation to Reagon's initial job at the museum.<ref name="auto"/>

In 1989, she was awarded a [[MacArthur Fellowship]] which helped her to complete the major project, ''Wade in the Water: African American Sacred Music Traditions'' (1994).<ref>{{cite web|author=MacArthur Foundation|url=https://www.macfound.org/fellows/class-of-1989/bernice-johnson-reagon|title=Bernice Johnson Reagon, Class of 1989|publisher=MacArthur Foundation|access-date=July 26, 2024}}</ref> After Reagon retired from singing with [[Sweet Honey in the Rock]] in 1993, she continued to work at the Smithsonian in African American Songs of Protest as a Curator Emerita.<ref>{{cite web|author=Shay Dawson|url=https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/bernice-johnson-reagon|title=Bernice Johnson Reagon (1942-2024)|publisher=National Women's History Museum|access-date=July 26, 2024}}</ref> 

She also held an appointment as Distinguished Professor of history at [[American University]] (AU) in Washington DC from 1993 to 2003. Reagon was later named professor emerita of history at AU, and held the title of Curator Emerita at the Smithsonian.<ref>{{cite web|author=American University|url=https://www.american.edu/cas/history/faculty/emeritus.cfm|title=Emeriti Faculty|publisher=American University|access-date=July 26, 2024}}</ref>