Pete Seeger Died In An America With Record Inequality

Pete Seeger Died In An America With Record Inequality
NEW YORK, NY - DECEMBER 14: Pete Seeger performs on stage during the Bring Leonard Pelitier Home 2012 Concert at Beacon Theatre on December 14, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Neilson Barnard/Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NY - DECEMBER 14: Pete Seeger performs on stage during the Bring Leonard Pelitier Home 2012 Concert at Beacon Theatre on December 14, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Neilson Barnard/Getty Images)

Many obituaries of American folk singer Pete Seeger, who died on Jan. 28 at age 94, detail his civil rights support, his run-ins with the US’s anti-Communist campaigns of the 1950s, and his penning or popularizing of songs like “We Shall Overcome” and “Turn Turn Turn.”

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