Pete Seeger Through the Years

From top left (clockwise): Pete Seeger, Lee Hayes, Fred Halterman, and Ronnie Gilbert of The Weavers in Philadelphia, on Feb. 26,1953.

From left: Henry A. Wallace, making a political tour of the American South, listens to Pete Seeger play the banjo on a plane between Norfolk and Richmond, Aug. 28, 1948.

American folksinger and activist Pete Seeger sings with fellow activists at a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) rally, in Greenwood, Miss., in 1963.

Pete Seeger (center) and his Toshi sit during a recording session with John Hurt, c. 1960s.

Pete Seeger conducts an instrument making session on Children’s Day at the Newport, R.I., Folk Festival on July 20, 1966.

Pete Seeger, c. 1960s.

Pete Seeger performs on a TV show in East Berlin, on Jan. 3, 1967.

Folk singer Pete Seeger aboard his boat, the sloop Clearwater, on Aug. 12, 1969, sailing from Massachusetts to New York City.

Pete Seeger performs at the Bread and Roses III benefit concert, in Berkeley, Calif., on Oct. 5, 1979.

From left: Pete Seeger, Al Sharpton and other civil rights activists lead a demonstration in protest of the Tawana Brawley incident, in Albany, N.Y., in March 1988.

19 Apr 1989, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA --- Folk singer Pete Seeger leads a crowd of mourners from the childhood home of political activist Abbie Hoffman to Temple Emmanuel for a traditional Jewish memorial service. Hoffman was recently found dead in his Pennsylvania home. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS

From left: Pete Seeger, actress Julie Harris, and actor Harry Belafonte speak at a press conference after being awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Clinton in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 14, 1994.

Pete Seeger (center) with Joan Baez, Bruce Springsteen, Patti Scialfa, Tom Morello and Dave Matthews during a concert celebrating Seeger's 90th birthday at Madison Square Garden in New York City, on May 3, 2009.