Pete Seeger at age 88 at the Clearwater Festival, June 16 2007. Credit: Wikimedia/Anthony Pepitone. CC BY-SA 3.0.
Pete Seeger, the banjo-playing folk singer, was in the forefront of every major reform movement in twentieth-century America. Born into a family with radical roots, he found his own way into the labor struggle, the civil rights crusade, the anti-Vietnam War effort, and finally the environmental movement. Hailed as the father of the folk music revival in the 1950s and 1960s, he used music to plead for reform, both in the United States and around the world.
