Guy Carawan
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Guy Carawan
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Guy Hughes Carawan Jr. 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 wife of the founder of the
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American musician and musicologist
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Carawan
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2024-01-10T19:48:52Z
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