Pete Seeger, the banjo-picking troubadour who sang for migrant workers, college students and star-struck presidents in a career that introduced generations of Americans to their folk music ...

Pete Seeger, the slim-Jim songster, folk-music activist, ... In between, in 1955, the song was involved in a matter before the House Un-American Activities Committee, ...

It was some garden party. Eighteen-thousand people packed into Madison Square Garden Sunday night to celebrate the first 90 years of Pete Seeger’s life. The legendary folk singer is a living history ...

Folk music legend Pete Seeger is being honoured with a concert in New York's Madison Square Garden, marking his 90th birthday. Dozens of music stars including Bruce Springsteen and Arlo Guthrie ...

Because of that, on July 26, 1956, the House of Representatives voted 373 to 9 to cite Pete Seeger, and seven others, for contempt. Five years later, Seeger’s case finally came to trial.

Seeger shows Dylan around the house, proudly displaying the modern amenities of the rustic abode. But when he talks about how the wondrous new composting toilet doesn’t even stink, his kids ...

And yet still Pete Seeger managed to rise above even the lofty circumstances of his birth, ... In 1955 Seeger was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee and refused to name names.

Seeger’s decision to plead the First when he testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in 1955 altered the trajectory of his life and career. While other unfriendly witnesses ...

The culmination of the FBI investigation on Pete Seeger took place on August 18, 1955, when he was brought before the a subcommittee of the House Committee on Un-American Activities, as outlined ...