Pete Seeger oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Beacon, New York, 2011 July 22
Seeger, Pete,
1919-2014
interviewee
Mosnier, Joseph,
interviewer
Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
moving image
videorecording
two-dimensional moving image
Filmed Interviews.
Interviews.
Oral histories.
Video recordings.
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2011
monographic
2011.
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4 video files of 4 (HD, Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (57 min.) : digital, sound, color.
1 transcript (25 pages).
Pete Seeger recalls performing at a concert with Paul Robeson in 1949 in Peekskill, New York, visiting the Highlander Folk School, and the evolution of the song "We Shall Overcome." He remembers performing at many civil rights events, including the Selma to Montgomery March. He also discusses his thoughts on Presidents Barack Obama and Rutherford B. Hayes.
Collection is open for research. Access to recordings may be restricted. To request materials, please contact the Folklife Reading Room at
Recorded in Beacon, New York, on July 22, 2011.
Civil Rights History Project Collection (AFC 2010/039), Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Copies of items are also held at the National Museum of African American History and Culture (U.S.).
Pete Seeger was born in 1919 in New York, New York, married Toshi-Aline Ota in 1943, and had three children. He attended Harvard University and was a folk singer and civil rights activist.
The Civil Rights History Project is a joint project of the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress and the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of African American History and Culture to collect video and audio recordings of personal histories and testimonials of individuals who participated in the Civil Rights movement.
In English.
Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/eadafc.af013005
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Seeger, Pete,
1919-2014
Interviews
Highlander Folk School (Monteagle, Tenn.)
Selma to Montgomery Rights March (1965 : Selma, Ala.)
We shall overcome
Civil rights movements
United States
Songs and music
Civil rights movements
United States
Folk singers
Interviews
Library of Congress Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, 101 Independence Ave. S.E., Washington, DC USA 20540-4610
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/folklife.home
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afc2010039.afc2010039_crhp0039
Civil Rights History Project collection
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AFC 2010/039: 0039
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