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DescriptionBertha Houston - We are Americans, Praise the Lord.ogg
Bertha Houston and her congregation sing "We are Americans, Praise the Lord"
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Ethnographic recordings collected for the Library of Congress's Archive of American Folk Song. Collector: Willis Laurence James.
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Bertha Houston and her congregation
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