Who Was Pete Seeger [Paperback]

Pete Seeger was an American folk musician and social activist whose outspoken songs about freedom and justice got him blacklisted from radio and TV for years.

Pete Seeger was still singing and playing the banjo for tens of thousands of fans even when he was at the age of ninety-four. Born in New York City on May 3, 1919, Pete came from a family of musicians. Despite writing and singing folk songs that all of America knows, not many kids know his name. Why? Because his ties to the Communist Party got him banned from radio and television for many years! Well-known for his civil rights activism with Martin Luther King Jr., Seeger also spearheaded efforts that cleaned up the Hudson River and made it beautiful again. His best-known songs include Where Have All the Flowers Gone? , If I Had a Hammer and Turn, Turn, Turn.

In this easy-to-read biography from theNew York Timesbest-selling series, Pete Seeger is revealed as not just a performer but as a champion for a better world and the eighty illustrations contained in the book help bring his story to life.Noel MacCarry worked as an elementary school librarian in North Salem, New York, for twenty-seven years. This is his first published book. He lives in Danbury, Connecticut.Who Was Pete Seeger?
 
Madison Square Garden was packed with more than fifteen thousand fans. It was May 3, 2009. Everyone had come to honor a very tall, very thin, plainly dressed musician. His name was Pete Seeger and it was his ninetieth birthday.
 
Pete who? Is that what you are asking yourself? Although he wrote and performed songs that all of America knows and loves, many young people today don’t recognize his name. That’s because for many years, his voice was banned from radio, and he was never seen on television.
 
That night, however, fans were thanking him for both his music and his courage to stand up for his beliefs. His belief that all people are l“r