I must heartily disagree with my friend Amy Worden’s recent column on Pete Seeger’s depiction in the Bob Dylan film, “A ...
Seeger was a celebrated presence in the Greenwich Village folk scene into which an unknown singer-songwriter named Bob Dylan ...
Though A Complete Unknown is about Bob Dylan, the film also dives deep into the life of Pete Seeger. The folk singer was ...
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 ...
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 ...
Folk singer Pete Seeger was performing for a Meridian, Mississippi church congregation when he got word that the bodies of missing civil rights workers Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner and James ...
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.
The folk singer, who died in 2014, was famous for his songs about working people, unions and social justice. In this 1984 interview, Seeger cited Woody Guthrie as one his most important influences.
See a photo gallery of notable celebrities and public figures who died in 2025. FILE – Singer-songwriter Peter Yarrow, of the ...
And certainly not Pete Seeger’s. You realize maybe it’s ... They chose to take that energy and lever it into the civil rights movement and the antiwar movement. And they raised the banner ...
Though A Complete Unknown is about Bob Dylan, the film also dives deep into the life of Pete Seeger ... paths, Seeger is still there, rooting for him and advocating for civil rights alongside ...