'We Shall Overcome' Folklorist Guy Carawan Dead at 87

Folk singer and folklorist Guy Carawan, who helped popularize the civil rights anthem “We Shall Overcome,” died at his home in New Market, Tennessee at the age of 87. “Guy very peacefully slipped away,” Carawan’s wife CandieĀ told 5 ABC Cleveland. “When you know somebody is on their way, it was…

Source: RollingStone
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