This Little Light of Mine

CTL-W-0120 · Work

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Combined Graph record U-00432 · provenance: canonical master store (CSV), record CTL-W-0120. Master record source: CTL seed 2026-10-16 — UNVERIFIED, verify before public citation.

Gospel standard; civil rights anthem

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• Work type: song

Sources

• http://folkways.si.edu/news-and-press/now-available-songs-my-mother-taught-me-by-fannie-lou-hamer (verification source · master store)

Evidence note (master store)

Song title: 'This Little Light of Mine' (track 13 on the album, per the fetched track list) Recording artist on the fetched source: Fannie Lou Hamer — Songs My Mother Taught Me, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings (African American Legacy Series, co-presented with the National Museum of African American History and Culture) Framing: Folkways describes the album's spirituals as songs many of which became civil rights anthems, sung by civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer — matching the stored 'civil rights anthem' framing

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