Guy Carawan
Sign in to saveAmerican musician and musicologist (1927-2015)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1927-07-27
- Died
- 2015-05-02
- Works
- 17
Top works
- Freedom is a constant struggle
- Guy Carawan sings something old, new, borrowed, and blue
- Songs by Guy Carawan
- This little light of mine
- Sing for Freedom
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- Listeners
- 2,018
- Total plays
- 8,518
Tags
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Guy Carawan ( July 27, 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. Carawan is famous for introducing the protest song "We Shall Overcome" to the American Civil Rights Movement, by teaching it to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in 1960. A union organizing song based on a black spiritual, it had been a favorite of Zilphia Horton (d. <a
Key dates
- Born
- 27 July 1927
- Died
- 2 May 2015
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Los Angeles
- Occupation
- guitarist
- Educated at
- Occidental College
- Notable work
- We Shall Overcome
- Image
- Guy carawan photo.jpg
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