“Waist Deep in the Big Muddy"

In the 1940s, he performed in The Almanac Singers with Woody Guthrie. Then he formed The Weavers. In the '50s, he opposed Senator Joseph McCarthy's witch hunt and was almost jailed for refusing to answer questions before the HUAC, the House Un-American Activities Committee.

Pete Seeger became a prominent civil rights activist and helped popularize the anthem, "We Shall Overcome." In the 1960s, he was a vocal critic of the Vietnam War and inspired generations of protest singers. Like King, Seeger became an increasingly vocal critic of the U.S. war in Vietnam. Nevertheless, one of his songs,was censored by CBS. The song allegorically described Vietnam as a quagmire, depicting President Lyndon B. Johnson as “the big fool” who “says to push on.

"Realize that little things lead to bigger things". Seeger said. "And there’s a wonderful parable in the New Testament: The sower scatters seeds. Some seeds fall in the pathway and get stamped on, and they don’t grow. Some fall on the rocks, and they don’t grow. But some seeds fall on fallow ground, and they grow and multiply a thousandfold".

Ted Rudow III, MA