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Civil Rights Pioneers Guy and Candie Carawan

Candie and Guy Carawan are social activists and folk musicians who were instrumental in turning the song “We Shall Overcome” into the theme song of the civil-rights movement.

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Candie and Guy Carawan are social activists and folk musicians who were instrumental in turning the song “We Shall Overcome” into the theme song of the civil-rights movement.

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  • The Carawans, on the porch at the Highlander Research and Education Center in New Market in 1986, met at the center in 1960.
  • Candie and Guy Carawan are social activists and folk musicians who were instrumental in turning the song “We Shall Overcome” into the theme song of the civil-rights movement.
  • Candie and Guy Carawan play 'We Shall Overcome' during the Knoxville Presidential Inauguration celebration honoring Civil Rights movement pioneers on Jan 20.
  • Guy and Candie Carawan, with their son, Evan, are pictured with the SNCC Freedom Singers at the Newport Folk Festival in 1963. The Freedom Singers are, from left, Rutha Harris, Cordell Reagon, Bernice Johnson Reagon and Charles Neblett.
  • Guy Carawan performs at Pitzer College in Clairemont, Calif., September 19, 1969.
  • Guy Carawan, left, singing with SNCC activists Bernard Lafayette, center, and James Bevel in 1960.

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