This Is Rhythm: Ella Jenkins, Children's Music, and the Long Civil Rights Movement

The remarkable life story of Ella Jenkins, “The First Lady of Children’s Music.”

Ella Jenkins was one of the most influential musicians of the twentieth century. Her songs “You’ll Sing a Song and I’ll Sing a Song” and “Who Fed the Chickens?” are classics in the world of children’s music. In a career spanning more than sixty years, she recorded forty albums, won a lifetime-achievement Grammy, and became the best-selling individual artist in the history of Smithsonian Folkways Records, the i...