McCarthy dragged Pete Seeger in to testify before the House ... He helped to transform “We Shall Overcome” into a civil rights anthem. He sang it on the 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery ...

The civil rights movement ... Vietnam War and his involvement in the anti-war movement and the whole “Rolling Stones, the Beatles, Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie” vibe and the sense of the ...

Bob Dylan and Pete Seeger as seen in the doc Pete Seeger ... From high school on, she lent her voice to antiwar causes and civil rights activism. In 1962, at age twenty-one, she was a Time ...

An older cousin introduced me to Pete Seeger and the Weavers ... songs that inspired me like “Blowing in the Wind,” which became the anthem of the Civil Rights Movement. Young people all over began ...

15. Pete Seeger, 'We Shall Overcome' (1963) This was one of the civil rights movement's most popular songs, an unofficial anthem so pervasive that President Lyndon B. Johnson slipped the title ...

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 ...

We'll start with folk singer Pete Seeger, who influenced Dylan ... how much America has changed as a result of the civil rights movement and one thing after another, the women's movement.

"Pete has always had an interest ... In later years, Seeger worked hard to promote the civil rights movement and the environmental movement, among others, but always found time to work hard ...

Top of mind was the Vietnam War, but consciousness was raised as a whole for Black civil ... protest movement (or rather movements) of the 1960s. As the decade turned over, the Pete Seeger version ...

But his civil rights activism is another essential part ... King and sing for the marchers alongside Ella Fitzgerald, Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, Sammy Davis Jr., Mahalia Jackson and others.

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.