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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 Highlander Research and Education Center in New Market, Tennessee .
May 8, 2015 · Mr. Carawan, a white folk singer and folklorist who died on Saturday at 87, did not write “We Shall Overcome,” nor did he claim to. The song, variously a religious piece, a labor anthem and a...
May 7, 2015 · Guy Carawan, who introduced the song “We Shall Overcome” to the civil rights movement, died on May 4 at age eighty-seven after a lengthy illness.
May 2, 2015 · Folk singer and guitarist Guy Carawan introduced the Freedom Movement to these words in early April, 1960 at a workshop for student sit-in protestors at the Highlander Folk School.
May 6, 2015 · The musician, known for introducing the protest song to the civil rights movement, died last week at 87. He and wife, Candie, taught music at the Highlander Center in New Market,...
May 10, 2015 · Guy Carawan, who introduced the song “We Shall Overcome” to the civil rights movement, died on May 4 at age eighty-seven after a lengthy illness., Millions of people around the world have sung the words to 'We Shall Overcome,” but few of them know the name Guy Carawan.
May 8, 2015 · Carawan, 87, died Saturday in New Market, Tenn. He was suffering from a form of dementia, said his wife, Candie Carawan.
May 8, 2015 · Civil rights activist and folk singer, Guy Carawan, died on Saturday, May 2 2015 in his home in New Market, Tenn. During a performance at the 1960 founding convention of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee at Highlander Folk School, Carawan introduced an updated version of the hymn, “We Shall Overcome.”.
May 8, 2015 · Folk singer Guy Carawan didn’t write “We Shall Overcome,” the galvanizing anthem of the civil-rights movement that the Library of Congress called “the most powerful song of the 20th ...
May 8, 2015 · Folk singer and folklorist Guy Carawan, who helped popularize the civil rights anthem “We Shall Overcome,” died at his home in New Market, Tennessee at the age of 87. “Guy very peacefully...
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