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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 6, 2015 · Guy Hughes Carawan, folk singer and civil rights campaigner, born 27 July 1927; died 2 May 2015. This article was amended on 8 May 2015. Guy Carawan’s first wife, Noel Oliver, did not die...
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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. Millions of people around the world have sung...
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...
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May 8, 2015 · Guy Carawan and his wife, Candie, at the Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Insititute at Stanford University receiving the Call to Conscience Award in 2006. Civil rights activist and folk singer, Guy Carawan, died on Saturday, May 2 2015 in his home in New Market, Tenn.
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 ...
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