 Harry Belafonte was also present on that occasion, along with Odetta, whom Martin Luther King introduced as "the queen of folk music", when she sang "Oh, Freedom" ("Odetta Sings Folk Songs" was one of 1963's best-selling folk albums).Also on hand were the SNCC Freedom Singers, the personnel of which went on to form Sweet Honey in the Rock.The critical role played by Freedom Songs in the voter registration drives, freedom rides, and lunch counter sit-ins during the Civil Rights Movement of the late 1950s and early '60s in the South, gave folk music tremendous new visibility and prestige.