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    Guy Hughes Carawan Jr. (July 28, 1927 – May 2, 2015) was an American folk musician and musicologist. He served as music director and song leader for the...
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  • be associated with the civil rights movement as a protest song, when Guy Carawan stepped in with his and Seeger's version as song leader at Highlander...
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  • author Claudia Carawan (born 1959), American singer-songwriter and pianist Evan Carawan, American hammered dulcimer player Guy Carawan (1927–2015), American...
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  • song in 1957 on the Vee-Jay label, and folk singer Guy Carawan issued a version in 1958. Carawan wrote that he had learned the song in 1956 from Bob...
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    during the 1960s by American folk musician and musicologist Guy Carawan and his wife, Candie Carawan. Janie Hunter, former singer of the Moving Star Hall singers...
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  • Peggy Seeger presents Origins of Skiffle (Peggy Seeger, Isla Cameron and Guy Carawan) Abicair, Shirley (1981). "Isla Cameron 1927-1980". Folk Music Journal...
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  • Overcome" to the American Civil Rights Movement with her husband Guy Carawan in the 1960s. Carawan was born to Howard and Lois Anderson in Los Angeles, California...
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  • Clarence Ashley Joe Bethancourt Dock Boggs Fleming Brown Dick Burnett Guy Carawan Sara Carter Stoney Cooper Hazel Dickens Roscoe Holcomb Tommy Jarrell...
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  • Evan Carawan is an American hammered dulcimer player from Knoxville, Tennessee. He is the son of folk musicians Candie and Guy Carawan. Evan Carawan learned...
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    was revived at Highlander by Guy Carawan, who succeeded Zilphia Horton as Highlander's music director in 1959. Guy Carawan taught the song to SNCC at their...
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    Archived from the original on July 24, 2008. Retrieved August 8, 2008. Carawan, Guy; Carawan, Candie; Raim, Ethel (1968), Freedom is a constant struggle: songs...
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  • Stanley Branche Ruby Bridges Aurelia Browder H. Rap Brown Ralph Bunche Guy Carawan Stokely Carmichael Johnnie Carr James Chaney J. L. Chestnut Shirley Chisholm...
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    Southerner in the Freedom Movement. NewSouth Books. ISBN 9781603061049. Carawan, Guy; Carawan, Candie, eds. (2008). "1961: Freedom Rides". Sing for Freedom: The...
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    divorced in 1967. In 1962, Lomax and singer and Civil Rights Activist Guy Carawan, music director at the Highlander Folk School in Monteagle, Tennessee...
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    recorded South African Freedom Songs (EPC-601) with Pete Seeger and Guy Carawan for Folkways Records. He performed in a number of Broadway musicals,...
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    Stanley Branche Ruby Bridges Aurelia Browder H. Rap Brown Ralph Bunche Guy Carawan Stokely Carmichael Johnnie Carr James Chaney J. L. Chestnut Shirley Chisholm...
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  • appearance and recording. Mrs Wine is credited by Candie Carawan only with having passed onto Guy Carawan the revision of the title from "Keep Your Hand on the...
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    anthem of the civil rights movement, soon after folk singer and activist Guy Carawan introduced it at the founding meeting of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating...
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  • Stanley Branche Ruby Bridges Aurelia Browder H. Rap Brown Ralph Bunche Guy Carawan Stokely Carmichael Johnnie Carr James Chaney J. L. Chestnut Shirley Chisholm...
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    Stanley Branche Ruby Bridges Aurelia Browder H. Rap Brown Ralph Bunche Guy Carawan Stokely Carmichael Johnnie Carr James Chaney J. L. Chestnut Shirley Chisholm...
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  • Attending Pitzer College, Darrow spent two years assisting folklorist Guy Carawan, who taught American Folk Life Studies. Darrow's interest in folk and...
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  • Shall Overcome" quickly became the unofficial anthem of the movement. Guy Carawan taught the popular freedom song during the spring of 1960 in a workshop...
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    Obama to do is to work like a third-world dictator and just put all of these guys in jail. You're violating the American desire." On February 1, 2013, Belafonte...
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  • & Mr. Hyde (1969) Furry Lewis, Shake 'Em On Down (1961) Guy Carawan, Songs with Guy Carawan (1950) Ramblin' Jack Elliott, I Stand Alone (2006) David...
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  • Stanley Branche Ruby Bridges Aurelia Browder H. Rap Brown Ralph Bunche Guy Carawan Stokely Carmichael Johnnie Carr James Chaney J. L. Chestnut Shirley Chisholm...
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  • Kvien, and civil rights activist and initiator of "We Shall Overcome" Guy Carawan. Notable alumni who did not graduate from Occidental include the 44th...
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  • Stanley Branche Ruby Bridges Aurelia Browder H. Rap Brown Ralph Bunche Guy Carawan Stokely Carmichael Johnnie Carr James Chaney J. L. Chestnut Shirley Chisholm...
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    Stanley Branche Ruby Bridges Aurelia Browder H. Rap Brown Ralph Bunche Guy Carawan Stokely Carmichael Johnnie Carr James Chaney J. L. Chestnut Shirley Chisholm...
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    display he told her, "I think it's fair to say that if it hadn't been for you guys, I might not be here and we wouldn't be looking at this together". The Rockwell...
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    to uplift the spirits and hearts of those fighting for civil rights. Guy Carawan referred to the Civil Rights Movement as "the greatest singing movement...
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