![]() Students will share their thoughts about the songs with the class.Students will read/hear lyrics of songs from three social movements Seeger was a part of, and analyze what those songs mean: (labor, civil rights, ant-war and movements).Students will learn about the life of folksinger Pete Seeger.Seeger was active in and sang for the labor movement, civil rights movement, anti-war movement (from Vietnam to Iraq) and the environmental movement - among others. Seeger believed that that the activism of everyday people, together with music, could help bring about a better world, and he lived out that idea continually over seven decades. ![]() The life and music of Pete Seeger, who died on January 27, 2014, at the age of 94, provides a teachable moment on activism, music, and on nearly every major social movement over the past century. ![]()
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