Guy Carawan is an American folk musician and musicologist. He serves 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 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 Highlander Folk Schoo...
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