12 May 2015

Guy Carawan

From The Panel, 4:35 pm on 12 May 2015
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Guy Carawan is dead at the age of 87. He was a middling sort of folk singer and social-justice advocate, and his great moment of inspiration was when he adapted the African-American spiritual `'We Shall Overcome" into a unifying anthem of the 1960s civil rights movement.

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