Pete Seeger didn't like singing by himself ... "We Will Overcome" Seeger didn't write the 1960s Civil Rights Movement anthem "We Shall Overcome," but he played an instrumental part in adapting ...
Pete Seeger, a man for whom the modifier “legendary ... He supported the labor and civil rights movements, was an unabashed communist (with a small “c”) and opposed America’s wars.
Blacklisted during the McCarthy era, a committed advocate for civil rights, environmental causes, social justice, and peace, Seeger remained a socialist till the end. Pete Seeger’s legacy ...
Over the course of nearly 75 years, the singer, songwriter and activist Pete Seeger used his pen and his voice to champion many causes: civil rights, farmworker and labor rights, and the environment.
Then, in December of that same year, he declared in a drunken speech to the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee ... When Bob Dylan arrives in New York City in the early 1960s, Pete Seeger, the ...
Wilkes-Barre-based folk musician and songwriter Don Shappelle can recall an early, formative moment in his musical journey.
Pete Seeger, one of the most influential artists ... He recorded over eighty albums — of children’s songs, labour, civil rights, and antiwar songs, traditional American folk songs ...
FILE - Singer-songwriter Peter Yarrow, of the 1960's era musical trio "Peter Paul and Mary," performs during a memorial tribute concert for folk icon and civil rights activist Pete Seeger in New ...